Laodicea
A Phrygian city named after a daughter of a Seleucid king but containing an older sacred tradition of Cybele.
The Story of Laodicea
Laodicea in Phrygia occupied ground sacred to the goddess Cybele long before Alexander's conquests. The area's mythological significance lay in its position in the heartland of Phrygia — the land of Midas and his golden touch, of Marsyas who challenged Apollo to a musical contest and was flayed alive for his presumption, and of the Phrygian mother goddess whose cult would spread throughout the Greek and Roman worlds. The region was saturated with stories of divine punishment for overreaching mortals, making it a kind of mythological cautionary landscape.
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