Excerpt from Geographical and Historical Description of Asia Minor, Vol. 2 of 2: With a Map
Migrations and history of the Phrygians - Different parts of Asia Minor to which the name of Phrygia has been applied - Greater Phrygia, its boundaries and divisions - Topography - Lycaonia - Sketch of its history - Description.
Herodotus relates that Psammitichus, king of Egypt, having made an experiment to discover which was the most ancient nation of the world, ascertained that the Phrygians surpassed all other people in priority of existence. (II. 2.) The story itself is childishly absurd; but the fact that the Egyptians allowed the highest degree of antiquity to this nation is important, and deserves attention. What the Greeks knew of the origin of the Phrygians does not accord, however, with the Egyptian hypothesis. Herodotus has elsewhere reported that they originally came from Macedonia, where they lived under the name of Briges, and that when they crossed over into Asia this was changed to Phryges. (VII. 73.) This account has been generally followed by subsequent writers, especially Strabo, (VII. p. 295.) who appears to quote Xanthus and Menecrates of El?a, Artemidorus, and other writers, who made the origin of nations and cities the object of their inquiries.
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