Phrygia
place · 15 works · 22 mentions · 28 anchored passages
Gordium · Gordium, in Phrygia · Phrygia's land · Phrygian mountains · both Phrygias · land of Phrygia
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Hellenica (Greek)
As for Pharnabazus and the ambassadors, while they were spending the winter at Gordium, in Phrygia, they heard what had happened at Byzantium.
in the texts
Iliad
Region recalled by Priam as the site of his youthful campaign, later invoked by Helen.
Are you going to send me afield still further to some man whom you have taken up in Phrygia or fair Meonia?
When I was in Phrygia I saw much horsemen, the people of Otreus and of Mygdon, who were camping upon the banks of the river Sangarios;
As he was thus doubting Phoebus Apollo drew near him in the likeness of a young and lusty warrior Asios, who was Hektor's uncle, being own brother to Hecuba, and son of Dymas who lived in Phrygia by the waters of the river Sangarios;
Hellenica
Pharnabazus's own home satrapy, whose vulnerability to attack from Aeolis motivates his choice of truce with Dercylidas.
And Pharnabazus, thinking that Aeolis had been made a strong base of attack upon his own dwelling-place, Phrygia, chose a truce.
and he took it and set out for Pharnabazus’ province of Phrygia.
and Agesilaus continued the march to Phrygia on which he had set out.
Orations
A region whose inhabitants are noted as clever at omen-reading, setting of the Phrygian rider anecdote.
And I wish, since I mentioned such things, to tell something that happened in Phrygia, that straightway from this you may have something to laugh at.
And you sit before Phrygia and Lydia, and besides Caria, and other most populous nations dwell around — Cappadocians and Pamphylians and Pisidians — and to all these you furnish your own city as a market and place of assembly.
Stromata
Phrygia, the Anatolian region of origin for both Pelops and the earliest Sibyl.
for there are several accounts both of her surname and of the oracles ascribed to her — that, being a Phrygian, she was called Artemis, and that she, coming to Delphi, sang:
Under Acrisius were the crossing of Pelops from Phrygia, and the arrival of Ion at Athens, and the second Cecrops, and the deeds of Perseus and of Dionysus, and Orpheus and Musaeus.
On the Navy-Boards
A region invoked as an undesirable refuge under Persian domination.
Will he go to Phrygia and be a slave?
Bacchae
The region associated with Dionysus's instruments and the mountains from which the Bacchae are led to Hellas.
Go, Bacchae, go, Bacchae, escorting the god Bromius, child of a god, from the Phrygian mountains to the broad streets of Hellas—Bromius,
Go, Bacchae, go, Bacchae, with the luxury of Tmolus that flows with gold, sing of Dionysus, beneath the heavy beat of drums, celebrating in delight the god of delight with Phrygian shouts and cries, when the sweet-sounding sacred pipe sounds a sacred playful tune suited to the wanderers, to the mountain, to the mountain!
But, you women who have left Tmolus, the bulwark of Lydia, my sacred band, whom I have brought from among the barbarians as assistants and companions to me, take your drums, native instruments of the city of the Phrygians, the invention of mother Rhea and myself, and going about this palace of Pentheus beat them, so that Kadmos’ city may see.
Cyclops
The region of Asia Minor including Troy, referenced by the Cyclops in dismissing the Trojan War
A sorry expedition yours, to have sailed to the land of Phrygia for the sake of one woman!
Iphigenia in Aulis
The region, associated with Troy, toward which Agamemnon and the army are setting out.
Son of Atreus, start for Phrygia’s land with joy and so return, I pray, after taking from Troy her fairest spoils.
The Histories
Region of Asia Minor traversed by Xerxes' army on its march toward Sardis and the Hellespont.
Passing from Phrygia into Lydia, he came to the place where the roads part;
Passing by the Phrygian town called Anaua, and the lake from which salt is obtained, he came to Colossae, a great city in Phrygia;
When they had crossed the river Halys and entered Phrygia, they marched through that country to Celaenae, where rises the source of the river Maeander and of another river no smaller, which is called Cataractes;
Hymn 5 to Aphrodite
Phrygia is the land Aphrodite names as her supposed mortal homeland in her deception.
Otreus of famous name is my father, if so be you have heard of him, and he reigns over all Phrygia rich in fortresses.
Panegyricus
A region of Asia Minor identified as a strategic target once the coastal islands are secured.
but if we get possession of them first, we may expect that the populations of Lydia and Phrygia and of the rest of the up-country will be in the power of our forces operating from those positions.
Adversus Judaeos
A region named among the places whose inhabitants have believed in Christ.
In whom have the nations believed — the Parthians, the Medes, the Elamites, and those who dwell in Mesopotamia, Armenia, Phrygia, Cappadocia, and those who inhabit Pontus and Asia and Pamphylia, those who reside in Egypt, and those who inhabit the region of Africa beyond Cyrene, Romans and resident foreigners, and then the Jews in Jerusalem, and the other nations — as now the various tribes of the …
Adversus Praxean
Region whose churches received and then lost the letters of peace.
For at that time the bishop of Rome was already acknowledging the prophecies of Montanus, Prisca, and Maximilla, and on the strength of that acknowledgement was bringing peace to the churches of Asia and Phrygia;
Anabasis
Region in which Timasion says he has local and military experience.
I am acquainted with Aeolis, Phrygia, Troas, and the entire province of Pharnabazus, partly because I come from that region, and partly because I have campaigned there with Clearchus and Dercylidas.
Cyropaedia
Regions contacted by Assyria for alliance.
to both Phrygias, to Paphlagonia, India, Caria, and Cilicia;