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Most people today are somewhat familiar with King Midas' legend and that he was said to have the “golden touch.” The legend has been turned into a familiar pop culture meme seen on cartoons and even adopted by an American automotive repair franchise, bringing it into the minds of millions of people who probably would not have ordinarily known anything about it. But few are aware of the legend’s historical origins.
====The Kingdom of Phrygia====
[[File: Ruins_of_Gordion.jpg|300px250px|thumbnail|left|The Ruins of the Ancient Phrygian Capital of Gordium]]
Phrygian culture developed out of the Late Bronze Age collapse around the year 1200 BC, as one of the first cultures to bring civilization back to Anatolia (modern Turkey) after the Hittite Empire was destroyed. The Kingdom of Phrygia was located northeast of Lydia, west of the Halys River, and north of Cappadocia, with its capital city of Gordium located along the Sangarius River banks. Though, the exact location of the kingdom was somewhat fluid because borders between kingdoms and peoples in ancient Anatolia were not as defined as they are today.
* Diodorus. <i> The Library of History.</i> Translated by C.H. Oldfather. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2004)
* Kuhrt, Amélie. <i>The Ancient Near East: c. 3000-330 BC.</i> (London: Routledge, 2010)
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