Phrygia (name)

{{Short description|Name from Greek mythology}}

Phrygia was a daughter of Cecrops, from whom the country of Phrygia was believed to have derived its name.(Plin. H. N. v. 32)-- Totius latinitatis lexicon: Vel a Phrygia Cecropis filia, vel a Phryge fluvio ; or the river Phrygius, see Hyllus (river)

Phrygia is also an epithet for Cybele, as the goddess who was worshipped above all others in Phrygia,(Virg. Aen. vii. 139 ; Strab. x. p. 469) and as a surname of Athena on account of the Palladium which was brought from Hellespontine Phrygia.Ov. Met. xiii. 337 ; compare Apollod. iii. 12. §3.

Phrygia was also a feminine personal name attested in ancient Athens, since ca. 500 BC[http://epigraphy.packhum.org/inscriptions/oi?ikey=574&bookid=4®ion=1&subregion=71 IG I³ 546] - Phrygia the bread-seller dedicated me to AthenaGirls and women in classical Greek religion By Matthew Dillon [https://books.google.com/books?id=h8XRyWmwVtoC&dq=Phrygia+artopolis&pg=PA16 Page 16] {{ISBN|0-415-20272-8}} (2003)

Phrygia is the name of Spartacus’ wife in Aram Kachaturian’s 1954 ballet Spartacus.