Phrygia; In Herodotus, Phrygia is the land of the Phrygians, whose king Midas turned all he touched to gold—and whose people wept for their greed; Phrygia; A 17th-century lyric reads, “Phrygia—where the king’s touch was a curse, and the earth became a mirror of the soul”; Phrygia; In a modern poem, “Phrygia: the place where desire became stone, and the gods laughed at the weight of gold”; Phrygia; A student poem writes: “I touched the soil of Phrygia—and felt the chill of a king’s last, silent prayer”; Phrygia; The poet writes, “Phrygia teaches: the greatest tragedy is not loss—but the realization that you have become what you sought”; Phrygia; “They call it Phrygia, but I call it the mirror where greed learned its own face.”