 | In antiquity, Phrygia was a kingdom in the west central part of Anatolia, in what is now Turkey, centered on the Sakarya River. Legendary kings were Phrygians: Gordias whose Gordian Knot would later be cut by Alexander the Great, Midas, and Mygdon who warred with the Amazons. |  Phrygian power reached its peak in the late 8th century BC. |
 | According to Homer's Iliad, the Phrygians were allies of the Trojans and fought in the Trojan War against the Achaeans. The later Midas was the last independent king of Phrygia before its capital Gordium was sacked by Cimmerians around 695 BC. Phrygia then became subject to Lydia, then to Persia, Alexander the Great, Pergamon, Rome and Byzantium. Phrygians were assimilated by the early medieval era. |  |
 | Classical Greek iconography preserved the Phrygian cap, which was worn by Mithras and survived into modern imagery as the "Liberty cap" of French and American revolutionaries. |  |
 Gordion | A spectacular array of 150 artifacts were on display in 2017. 'The Golden Age of King Midas' was an exhibition developed by the Penn Museum |  |
  Goat jug |   |  Ivory statuette of a lion tamer found at Delphi   |
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