Phrygia (name) explained

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

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.

Other uses

• Phrygia (plant), a taxonomic synonym of the genus Centaurea
• Phrygia, one of the seven Magypsies in the 2006 role-playing video game Mother 3

Notes and References

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. http://epigraphy.packhum.org/inscriptions/oi?ikey=574&bookid=4&region=1&subregion=71 IG I³ 546
5. Girls and women in classical Greek religion By Matthew Dillon Page 16 (2003)