Phrygia Greek An ancient region of central Asia Minor (now central Turkey).
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Phrygia Greek An ancient region of central Asia Minor (now central Turkey). The goddess Cybele was worshiped there (as well as, later, in Greece and Rome). With Gordius, legendary king of Phrygia, Cybele bore a son, Midas, who became king of Phrygia after Gordius.
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- Midas Greek A mythical king of Phrygia, an ancient region of central Asia Minor; son of the goddess Cybele and Gordius, from whom he inherited the throne.
- Lydia Greek A wealthy kingdom of western Asia Minor (now northwestern Turkey).
- Ixion Greek King of the Lapiths in Thessaly, the largest ancient region of north-central Greece.
- Latium Roman In ancient times, a region in west-central Italy, south and east of the Tiber River on the shores of the Tyrrhenian Sea.
- Medea Greek A sorceress; daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis (Asia Minor); niece of Circe, the witch of the Odyssey.