Phryg·i·a

(frĭj′ē-ə)

An ancient region of central Asia Minor in modern-day central Turkey. It was settled c. 1200 bc and flourished from the eighth to the sixth century, after which it came under the influence of Lydia, Persia, Greece, Rome, and Byzantium.

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Phrygia

(ˈfrɪdʒɪə)

(Placename) an ancient country of W central Asia Minor

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Phryg•i•a

(ˈfrɪdʒ i ə)

n.

an ancient country in central and NW Asia Minor.

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Phrygia - an ancient country in western and central Asia Minor

Colossae - an ancient city in south western Phrygia in Asia Minor; site of an early Christian Church

Anatolia, Asia Minor - a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey

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Фригия

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Sardis, the capital of Lydia; Samos, a Greek island; Mesembria, an ancient colony in Thrace; and Cotiaeum, the chief city of a province of Phrygia, contend for the distinction of being the birthplace of Aesop.

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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 Sangarius; I was their ally, and with them when the Amazons, peers of men, came up against them, but even they were not so many as the Achaeans."

Are you going to send me afield still further to some man whom you have taken up in Phrygia or fair Meonia?

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Otreus of famous name is my father, if so be you have heard of him, and he reigns over all Phrygia rich in fortresses.

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I thought I was following in the footsteps of Achilles and should have the glory of conquering a new Ilium for Greece; actually, as I see today, it was absolutely necessary to drive the Persians back from the Aegean Sea; and I drove them back, my dear master, so thoroughly that I occupied the whole of Bithynia, Phrygia, and Cappadocia, laid waste Cilicia, and only stopped at Tarsus.

Alexander the Great

Are the martyrs of Lyons, most of whom apparently emigrated from Asia and Phrygia (see App.

Martyrdom and Rome

there were many more Jews living outside Palestine than in it; they were especially heavily concentrated in Egypt and the Fertile Crescent, and could be found in large numbers throughout Asia Minor (including remote and basically unurbanized regions like Phrygia and Galatia), in smaller numbers in Greece and the adjacent regions and, starting in the first century B.C.E., in ever-increasing numbers in Rome and other cities of Italy and of North Africa.

Language, power and identity in ancient Palestine

Della Valle's tragic outlook further underlies his tragicomedy Adelonda di Frigia (1595; "Adelonda of Phrygia"), in which the heroine's ideals are contrasted with a barbarous reality.

Della Valle, Federico

Basilius has often been justly contrasted with Euarchus, whom Annabel Patterson refers to as his "antitype"; unlike Basilius, Euarchus resorts to severe punitive justice, believing with Machiavelli that a prince must guard by any means "the majesty of his dignity, which must never be allowed to fail in anything whatsoever."(22) opposing Basilius to Euarchus, however, has obscured the way in which Basilius balances another unsuccessful ruler, the King of Phrygia, who relies as exclusively on fear to avoid contempt as Basilius does on love, with equal success.

"A pleasant and terrible reverence": maintenance of majesty in Sidney's 'New Arcadia.' (Philip Sidney)