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/ˈmaɪdəs/
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‘greek’ —> ‘Μίδας’
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(greek legend)
(“midas” is the name of at least 3 members of the ‘royal house’ of “phrygia”)
(the most famous king midas is popularly remembered in ‘greek mythology’ for his ability to turn everything he touched into ‘gold’)
(this came to be called the golden touch)
(aka the “midas touch”)
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(the phrygian city ‘midaeum’ was presumably named after this ‘midas’, and this is probably also the ‘midas’ that (according to ‘pausanias’) founded ‘ancyra’)
(according to ‘aristotle’, legend held that ‘midas’ died of ‘starvation’ as a result of his “vain prayer” for the ‘gold touch’)
(the legends told about this ‘midas’ + his father ‘gordias’, credited with founding the phrygian capital city ‘gordium’ + tying the ‘gordian knot’, indicate that they were believed to have lived sometime in the ‘2nd millennium BCE’ (well before the ‘trojan war’))
(however, ‘homer’ does not mention ‘midas’ or ‘gordias’, while instead mentioning 2 other phrygian kings (‘mygdon’ + ‘otreus’))
(another ‘king midas’ ruled ‘phrygia’ in the ‘late 700s BCE’, up until the sacking of ‘gordium’ by the ‘cimmerians’, when he is said to have committed suicide)
(most historians believe this ‘midas’ is the same person as the mita (called ‘king of the mushki’ in ‘assyrian texts’), who warred with ‘assyria’ and its ‘anatolian provinces’ during the same period)
(a 3rd ‘midas’ is said by ‘herodotus’ to have been a member of the royal house of ‘phrygia’ and the grandfather of an ‘adrastus’ who fled ‘phrygia’ after accidentally killing his brother and took asylum in ‘lydia’ during the reign of ‘croesus’)
(‘phrygia’ was by that time a ‘lydian subject’)
(‘herodotus’ says that ‘croesus’ regarded the ‘phrygian royal house’ as “friends” but does not mention whether the ‘phrygian royal house’ still ruled as (vassal) kings of ‘phrygia’)
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