Phrygia (name)

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Phrygia was a daughter of Cecrops, from whom the country of Phrygia was believed to have derived its name. [1]

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Phrygia is also an epithet for Cybele, as the goddess who was worshipped above all others in Phrygia, [2] and as a surname of Athena on account of the Palladium which was brought from Hellespontine Phrygia. [3]

Phrygia was also a feminine personal name attested in ancient Athens, since ca. 500 BC [4] [5]

Phrygia is the name of Spartacus’ wife in Aram Kachaturian’s 1954 ballet Spartacus .

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  1. (Plin. H. N. v. 32)-- Totius latinitatis lexicon: Vel a Phrygia Cecropis filia, vel a Phryge fluvio ; or the river Phrygius, see Hyllus (river)
  2. (Virg. Aen. vii. 139 ; Strab. x. p. 469)
  3. Ov. Met. xiii. 337 ; compare Apollod. iii. 12. §3.
  4. IG I³ 546 - Phrygia the bread-seller dedicated me to Athena
  5. Girls and women in classical Greek religion By Matthew Dillon Page 16 ISBN   0-415-20272-8 (2003)

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PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Phrygia". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology .