Phrygia

Phrygia occurs as a name for Cybele, as the goddess who was worshiped above all others in Phrygia,1 and as a surname of Athena on account of the Palladium which was brought from Phrygia.2

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References

Notes

  1. Virgil. Aeneid vii, 139; Strabo. Geography x, p. 469.
  2. Ovid. Metamorphoses xiii, 337; compare Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library iii, 12.3.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.