An Iron Age kingdom in west-central Anatolia, centered on the Sangarios River, that rose to prominence after the Bronze Age Collapse and reached its apogee under the legendary King Midas.
Ended as an independent kingdom c. 695 BCE when Cimmerian invaders sacked the capital Gordion and king Midas committed suicide; Phrygian territory subsequently came under Lydian hegemony c. 680 BCE.
Situates Phrygia within the broader Early Iron Age Near East after the Bronze Age Collapse.
A reliable, readable introduction to the Bronze Age peoples of Anatolia and the Hittite world, the milieu of the Hattians, Arzawa, Kizzuwatna, and Kaska.