Midas

Midas in Wikipedia

Midas or King Midas (in Greek Μίδας) is popularly remembered in Greek mythology for his ability to turn everything he touched into gold. This was called the Golden touch, or the Midas touch.[1] He bears some relation to the historical Mita, king of the Mushki in Western Anatolia in the later 8th century BC.[2] Midas was king[3] of Pessinus, a ...

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Midas in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Mi/das), a son of Gordius, according to some by Cybele (Hyg. Fab. 274), a wealthy but effeminate king of Phrygia, a pupil of Orpheus, and a promoter of the worship of Dionysus (Hdt. 1.14; Paus. 1.4.5; Aelian, Ael. VH 4.17; Strab. vii. p.304). His wealth is alluded to in a story connected with his childhood, for it is said that while yet a ch...

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