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Greek Culture in the Roman World
Roman Phrygia: Culture and Society
The bleak steppe and rolling highlands of inner Anatolia were one of the most remote and underdeveloped parts of the Roman empire. Still today, for most historians of the Roman world, ancient Phrygia largely remains terra incognita. Yet thanks to a startling abundance of Greek and Latin inscriptions on stone, the cultural history of the villages and small towns of Roman Phrygia is known to us in vivid and unexpected detail. Few parts of the Mediterranean world offer so rich a body of evidence for rural society in the Roman Imperial and late antique periods, and for the flourishing of ancient Christianity within this landscape. The eleven essays in this book offer new perspectives on the remarkable culture, lifestyles, art and institutions of the Anatolian uplands in antiquity.
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First published January 1, 2013
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March 23, 2020
There are far better books on Phrygians I have read than this one but it is passable. What we learn of them of interest is:
1. They claim to have come from the North and spoke a language different from Ellenic or Phoenician but closer to Phoenician, only a bit more ruinic, like Northern languages.
2. They are affiliated and partly synonomous (per Arran, Alexander the Great’s Historian) with the ancient Trojans who were divided into three primary Septs Homer, from before 800 BC, gives us as well: Acheans, Dorians and Phrygians; with much overlap between these. These 3 were entirely different peoples from the Aegeans who overtook their culture and worked as sophists replacing Spartan and mainland Greece leadership largely by Alexander’s day and were working with a corrupt and faux Babylon (Darius of good line was ostensibly being led by then by the nose under a Eunuch working with a corrupted Egypt and with a Kurgan warlord and these were Alexander’s real enemies; people miss why he wept when he heard captured Darius was stabbed in his gilded cage).
3. Herodotus and I think Tacitus describe the Phrygians as being unusually naturally large muscled like the Barbarians of the North. Herodotus wonders if the oldest known people on earth were Scythians or Arcadians or Phrygians so this lends to them being a very ancient people indeed. Their culture ware in artistry resembles more the indo-european Caeltic looking kind of a culture Giambutas mentions that migrated out from the Olb River in Russia before 5,000 BC and likely are the same Herodotus and Hecataeus of Abdera say were Boreals of a lost North even beyond such Arimaspi lands but then ever pushed southwest long long ago by a foreign and deadly culture of fake royal Scythians (Giambutas Kurgan war culture who overtook such peoples often and Herodotus mentions them making Slaves of the real Scythians).
4. They called themselves a word pronounced more like “Berigu” and “Beru” on inscriptions of theirs, Berigu as in the “Bereans and Berigians” mentioned by Tacitus and other works. In most European cultures this word means Northern, Boreal (Arran showing the Dorian Heraclian Acheans inhabiting in the same locale the later Bereans were located further confirming this). One even finds this in France with more northern Frisian type French individuals like the Berugundi Franks having such last names as Bardotaou and so on even today. Do not forget though the Waltherius Saga and that primary document Wagner the musician took from for his Ring Cycle both speak of the original Berugundians being replaced by a group of people posing as Burgundians but were not. Caesar also confirms this of Burgundy regions where he said false Germans who were not Germans but Sicambrians came in among them and began enslaving their free cultures. Such played out heavily later in French politics even down to Joan of Arc’s time with a competing Burgundian faction among them.
5. Alexander the Great found Phrygian support almost immediately for they had been co-opted for some time by mercenary dictators (Memnon) of a false and corrupt Babylon and Egypt by that period in Babylon’s history. His first more common law wife was a Phrygian Princess such said nemesis mercenary warlord against him had as his slave and whom he proudly liberated with a fierce protection and honor for them. I would argue Alexander didn’t really formally begin his war path till he sacrificed to Athena on her Alter putting on her armour only as soon as he crossed into the Troad (Trojan Land) and reclaimed it for them. Keep in mind Athena per Proclus (last remnant representative of the living 1200 year school of Pythagoras and later Plato) signified that energy or power among man that is for beauty and culture and peace and higher Wisdom against the War Mongers (Aries) and willing to die fighting against such people who love violence rather for violence sake (which are identical to Sophists on the philosophical plane who just tear and tare for the sake of tearing and taring and are ever in bed with the warmonger as both are proverbial dead souls).
6. All the early churches except Antioch (which was very nearby) and a couple others, as mentioned in Revelations and other New Testament books, were located in Phrygian old Trojan land there. This is really where Christianity first began and spread even more than Rome. These were Trojan people’s first, such the first so called “gentiles” among them were, they among the first Christians as first Christians! Keep in mind modern idiot academics from the 1700’s to 1900’s and even some now, but mainly up until Schliemann, laughed at over 40 countries own ancient chronologies of themselves I have read tracing their most royal lines to the Trojans as fantasy. This is how much they desecrate our ancient records and so should not be given the time of day except to cull archeological and minor data from, which even this they usually classify wrong. But they are being forced to change, for example a recent documentary I saw of people in the UK finding coins minted by 1st century Celtic Queen Boadicea (same time as Christian beginnings) are seen describing their design on them as having the Royal Trojan Horse emblem on it, which is correct.
There is much more I could add here, such as their religion and lore and beliefs but that is enough for now and only partially covered by this book.
1. They claim to have come from the North and spoke a language different from Ellenic or Phoenician but closer to Phoenician, only a bit more ruinic, like Northern languages.
2. They are affiliated and partly synonomous (per Arran, Alexander the Great’s Historian) with the ancient Trojans who were divided into three primary Septs Homer, from before 800 BC, gives us as well: Acheans, Dorians and Phrygians; with much overlap between these. These 3 were entirely different peoples from the Aegeans who overtook their culture and worked as sophists replacing Spartan and mainland Greece leadership largely by Alexander’s day and were working with a corrupt and faux Babylon (Darius of good line was ostensibly being led by then by the nose under a Eunuch working with a corrupted Egypt and with a Kurgan warlord and these were Alexander’s real enemies; people miss why he wept when he heard captured Darius was stabbed in his gilded cage).
3. Herodotus and I think Tacitus describe the Phrygians as being unusually naturally large muscled like the Barbarians of the North. Herodotus wonders if the oldest known people on earth were Scythians or Arcadians or Phrygians so this lends to them being a very ancient people indeed. Their culture ware in artistry resembles more the indo-european Caeltic looking kind of a culture Giambutas mentions that migrated out from the Olb River in Russia before 5,000 BC and likely are the same Herodotus and Hecataeus of Abdera say were Boreals of a lost North even beyond such Arimaspi lands but then ever pushed southwest long long ago by a foreign and deadly culture of fake royal Scythians (Giambutas Kurgan war culture who overtook such peoples often and Herodotus mentions them making Slaves of the real Scythians).
4. They called themselves a word pronounced more like “Berigu” and “Beru” on inscriptions of theirs, Berigu as in the “Bereans and Berigians” mentioned by Tacitus and other works. In most European cultures this word means Northern, Boreal (Arran showing the Dorian Heraclian Acheans inhabiting in the same locale the later Bereans were located further confirming this). One even finds this in France with more northern Frisian type French individuals like the Berugundi Franks having such last names as Bardotaou and so on even today. Do not forget though the Waltherius Saga and that primary document Wagner the musician took from for his Ring Cycle both speak of the original Berugundians being replaced by a group of people posing as Burgundians but were not. Caesar also confirms this of Burgundy regions where he said false Germans who were not Germans but Sicambrians came in among them and began enslaving their free cultures. Such played out heavily later in French politics even down to Joan of Arc’s time with a competing Burgundian faction among them.
5. Alexander the Great found Phrygian support almost immediately for they had been co-opted for some time by mercenary dictators (Memnon) of a false and corrupt Babylon and Egypt by that period in Babylon’s history. His first more common law wife was a Phrygian Princess such said nemesis mercenary warlord against him had as his slave and whom he proudly liberated with a fierce protection and honor for them. I would argue Alexander didn’t really formally begin his war path till he sacrificed to Athena on her Alter putting on her armour only as soon as he crossed into the Troad (Trojan Land) and reclaimed it for them. Keep in mind Athena per Proclus (last remnant representative of the living 1200 year school of Pythagoras and later Plato) signified that energy or power among man that is for beauty and culture and peace and higher Wisdom against the War Mongers (Aries) and willing to die fighting against such people who love violence rather for violence sake (which are identical to Sophists on the philosophical plane who just tear and tare for the sake of tearing and taring and are ever in bed with the warmonger as both are proverbial dead souls).
6. All the early churches except Antioch (which was very nearby) and a couple others, as mentioned in Revelations and other New Testament books, were located in Phrygian old Trojan land there. This is really where Christianity first began and spread even more than Rome. These were Trojan people’s first, such the first so called “gentiles” among them were, they among the first Christians as first Christians! Keep in mind modern idiot academics from the 1700’s to 1900’s and even some now, but mainly up until Schliemann, laughed at over 40 countries own ancient chronologies of themselves I have read tracing their most royal lines to the Trojans as fantasy. This is how much they desecrate our ancient records and so should not be given the time of day except to cull archeological and minor data from, which even this they usually classify wrong. But they are being forced to change, for example a recent documentary I saw of people in the UK finding coins minted by 1st century Celtic Queen Boadicea (same time as Christian beginnings) are seen describing their design on them as having the Royal Trojan Horse emblem on it, which is correct.
There is much more I could add here, such as their religion and lore and beliefs but that is enough for now and only partially covered by this book.
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