Talk:Midas

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I think the story of King midas changes the veiws of our current society's maturity. Now, we veiw maturity as leadership, respnsibility and some other things including some traits thatMidas obtained towrad the end of his story.Immaturity today includes greed, held by Midas, selfishness and other traits that Midas showed in this story. I think that this story helps people find good traits to show that reflect maturity. By Ella McDougall

I believe that Adrastus was the son of Gordias, not Midas. Pokemonfanboy (talk) 13:35, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Am I missing something here? One of the most notable archeological finds of our time

http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/research/Exp_Rese_Disc/Mediterranean/Midas/intro.shtml

and we devoted king midas' page to two fables? I'm going to dig around for the page on the historical king and then edit this thing if I can't find it. Asdfff 09:30, 25 January 2006 (UTC)asdfff[reply]

NEW COMMENT--There is a discussion of the mythical versus the historical Midas with a short bibliography at

   http://www.phrygians.com/midas.html
   http://www.phrygians.com/midasbiblio.html

The historical Midas is mentioned in Herodotus 1.14.. See the Perseus Project links at

    http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0004&layout=&loc=midas

As noted above, the U Penn site discusses the archeology of his tomb and funerary feast.

Hearsay?

"Other versions of the myth portray Midas as a peasant who performed a good deed and became king, where greed then swept him over." This transformation of a peasant Midas is an improvisation? --Wetman 19:38, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
"[Alternatively, Midas jumped into the water and immediately, the water turned into gold, killing Midas]." Such "alternatives" are often based on rememberings of Xena Warrior Princess episodes, etc. I didn't remove this, however. Is there a source? --Wetman 19:40, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

King midas-golden Touch

i am a journalist and i was writing about midas a few days ago i have hear that the bush he touch is still gold and still living in greece! ??wanna know were and how??

go to www.midashouse.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.239.201.217 (talk) 08:25, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Myth

This appears to be the long version. I think some severe editing is needed. Looking at the articles at some of the other gods, who, after all, were total myths, there is (mercifully) almost no tales. Just a credible article on the worship of the god and enough detail to understand that worship. No more. Several pages dedicated to a myth is too much IMO. Direct the reader to a online site and briefly summarize please. Student7 (talk) 02:35, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Anatolian(today=Turkish) Name of Midas

As most of the direct descendants of ancient anatolians today speak Turkish, the turkish version of the name of the king should also be provided. It should also be provided because, the name of Midas is even today used by anatolians in some idioms such as "He has the gold of Mida" to say that someone has lots of wealth. Lycianhittite (talk) 00:16, 18 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]