Gold was perhaps not the only metallic source of Midas ' riches: " King Midas, a Phrygian, son of Cybele, first discovered black and white lead ".

Tantalus is referred to as " Phrygian " and sometimes even as " King of Phrygia ", although his city was located in the western extremity of Anatolia where Lydia was to emerge as a state before the beginning of the first millennium BC, and not in the traditional heartland of Phrygia, situated more inland.

Her father is referred to as " Phrygian " and sometimes even as " King of Phrygia ", although his city was located in the western extremity of Anatolia where Lydia was to emerge as a state before the beginning of the first millennium BC, and not in the traditional heartland of Phrygia, situated more inland.

The best-known Gordias was reputedly the founder of the Phrygian capital city Gordium, the maker of the legendary Gordian Knot, and the father of the legendary King Midas who turned whatever he touched to gold.

The first Dymas was a Phrygian king and father of Hecuba ( also called Hecabe ), wife to King Priam of Troy.

Of Phrygian or Lydian birth, he departed his homeland for Greece, and won the crown of Pisa or Olympia from King Oenomaus.

He led a force of Phrygians against the Amazons alongside his comrades Otreus ( another Phrygian leader ) and King Priam of Troy, one generation before the Trojan War.

An aspect of the compromise religious settlement, similar to the other such mythic adjustments throughout Aegean culture, can be read in the later Phrygian King Gordias ' adoption " with Cybele " of Midas.

The Phrygian cap is sometimes associated with the headdress that was worn by King Midas to hide the donkey ears given to him as a curse by Apollo, although according to Ovid, Midas hid his ears beneath a purple turban.

King Priam's wife Hecabe is usually said to be of Phrygian birth, as a daughter of King Dymas.

The Phrygian city Midaeum was presumably named after this Midas, and this is probably also the Midas that according to Pausanias founded Ancyra.

The legends told about this Midas and his father Gordias, credited with founding the Phrygian capital city Gordium and tying the Gordian Knot, indicate that they were believed to have lived sometime in the 2nd millennium BC well before the Trojan War.

However, Homer does not mention Midas or Gordias, while instead mentioning two other famed Phrygian kings, Mygdon and Otreus.

Since Herodotus says elsewhere that Phrygians anciently lived in Europe where they were known as Bryges, the existence of the garden implies that Herodotus believed Midas lived prior to a Phrygian migration to Anatolia.

The old satyr Silenus had been drinking wine and had wandered away drunk, later to be found by some Phrygian peasants, who carried him to their king, Midas ( alternatively, he passed out in Midas ' rose garden ).

* Sarah Morris, " Midas as Mule: Anatolia in Greek Myth and Phrygian Kingship " ( abstract ), American Philological Society Annual Meeting, 2004.

Ancient furniture has been excavated from the 8th-century BC Phrygian tumulus, the Midas Mound, in Gordion, Turkey.

The Cimmerians were subsequently recorded as having conquered Phrygia in 696-695 BC, prompting the Phrygian king Midas to take poison rather than face capture.

In some accounts, Gordias and the Phrygian goddess Cybele adopted Midas.

Herodotus also says that Gordias ' son Midas had a garden in Macedonia, which could imply that Herodotus believed Gordias lived before the legendary Phrygian migration to Anatolia.

Out of gratitude, his son Midas dedicated the ox-cart to the Phrygian god Sabazios ( whom the Greeks identified with Zeus ) and either tied it to a post or tied its shaft with an intricate knot of cornel ( Cornus mas ) bark.

Several themes of myth converged on the chariot, as Robin Lane Fox remarks: Midas was connected in legend with Alexander's native Macedonia, where the lowland " Gardens of Midas " still bore his name, and the Phrygian tribes were rightly remembered as having once dwelt in Macedonia.

Based on the myth, the new dynasty was not immemorially ancient, but had widely remembered origins in a local, but non-priestly " outsider " class, represented by Greek reports equally as an eponymous peasant " Gordias " or the locally-attested, authentically Phrygian " Midas " in his ox-cart.

Long and hairy they sprouted up, and Midas in a panic covered them up with a tall Phrygian cap, hoping nobody ever discovered his embarrassing secret.

Part ( about 70 %) of Phrygian inscription in Phrygia # History | ' Midas City '.

The Phrygian expansion into south east Anatolia was eventually halted by the Assyrians, who controlled that region.

It was written, according to the text, by Paul the Apostle to the Church in Colossae, a small Phrygian city near Laodicea and approximately 100 miles from Ephesus in Asia Minor.

1515, probably based on a drawing by Raphael, and using a composition derived from a Roman sarcophagus, was a highly influential treatment, which made Paris's Phrygian cap an attribute in most later versions.

* Phrygian Sibyl was the priestess presiding over an Apollonian oracle at Phrygia, a historical kingdom in the Anatolian highlands.

On the bottom was a cameo glass disc, also in blue and white, showing a head, presumed to be of Paris or Priam on the basis of the Phrygian cap it wears.

For many Romans, Egyptian Isis was an aspect of Phrygian Cybele, whose orgiastic rites were long-naturalized at Rome, indeed, she was known as Isis of Ten Thousand Names.

It was believed that the Phrygian prophets were possessed by evil spirits, and both Maximilla and Priscilla were the targets of failed exorcisms.

In Strabo's opinion, the original name of the Dacians was " daoi ", which Mircea Eliade in his De Zalmoxis à Genghis Khan explained with a possible Phrygian cognate " Daos ", the name of the wolf god.

In Homer, Rhea is the mother of the gods, though not a universal mother like Cybele, the Phrygian Great Mother, with whom she was later identified.

It was a stiff horn-like bonnet, which was made of gemmed brocade or cloth-of-gold and worn over the camauro, a fine linen cap with a structured peak reminiscent of the Phrygian cap, a classical symbol of liberty.

He was the second emperor of the Phrygian dynasty, and the last emperor supporting iconoclasm.

Michael III was the third and traditionally last member of the Amorian Dynasty, also known as the Phrygian Dynasty.

Pausanias mentions that Phliasians and Sicyonians claimed that its source was in fact the Phrygian and Carian river Maeander that purportedly descended underground where it appeared to enter the sea at Miletus and rose again in the Peloponnesos as Asopus.

Cybele ( Phrygian: Matar Kubileya / Kubeleya " Kubeleyan Mother ", perhaps " Mountain Mother "; Lydian Kuvava ; Kybele, Κυβήβη Kybebe, Κύβελις Kybelis ), was an originally Anatolian mother goddess.

She may have been Phrygia's State deity ; her Phrygian cult was adopted and adapted by Greek colonists of Asia Minor, and spread from there to mainland Greece and its more distant western colonies from around the 6th century BCE.

Many of her Greek cults included rites to a divine Phrygian castrate shepherd-consort Attis, who was probably a Greek invention.

She is ancient Phrygia's only known goddess, and was probably the highest deity of the Phrygian State.

Agdistis () was a deity of Greek, Roman and Anatolian mythology, possessing both male and female sexual organs, connected with the Phrygian worship of Attis and Cybele.