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phrygia

/ˈfɹɪd͡ʒ.i.ə/

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What does phrygia mean?

proper noun

  1. (historical) A geographic region and ancient kingdom in the west central part of Asia Minor, in what is now modern-day Turkey.

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I think his smiling becomes him better than any man in all Phrygia.
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100
Remaining, therefore, himself in Phrygia, he sent Demetrius, now twenty-two years old, to make his first essay as sole commander in an important charge.
PlutarchPlutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and RomansProject Gutenberg ebook #674
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He was a fair young shepherd or herdsman of Phrygia, beloved by Cybele (or Demeter), the Mother of the gods.
Edward CarpenterPagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and MeaningProject Gutenberg ebook #1561
Grote refers to numerous writers as authority for the statement that Dionysos, who usually appears in Greece as masculine, and who was doubtless the Jehovah of the Jews, was indigenous in Thrace, Phrygia, and Lydia as the Great Mother Cybele.
Eliza Burt GambleThe God-Idea of the Ancients; Or, Sex in ReligionProject Gutenberg ebook #639
In Phrygia, the lake and morass near Tyana were ascribed to the wrath of Zeus and Hermes, who, having visited the cities which formerly stood there, and having been refused shelter by all the inhabitants save Philemon and Baucis, rewarded their benefactors, but sunk the wicked cities beneath the lake and morass.
Andrew Dickson WhiteHistory of the Warfare of Science with Theology in ChristendomProject Gutenberg ebook #505