The historical King Midas ruled the Near Eastern Kingdom of Phrygia in the late 8th to early 7th centuries B.C.. He made Phrygia the wealthiest and most powerful kingdom at the time. The legend of ...

Credit: Walter Crane, Public Domain One of the most famous characters from Greek mythology is King Midas. He was the king who, according to legend, turned anything he touched into gold. While many ...

The story of King Midas is a myth about the tragedy of avarice and narrates what happens when true happiness is not recognized. Midas was a man who wished that everything he touched would turn into ...

Find out if it's on view. This sculpture of a man with great big ears sure is funny looking. But nobody was laughing when an angry Greek god punished King Midas by giving him the ears of a donkey!

He's woken when a king - King Midas - and his soldiers come riding up. Midas has a special longing to see Dionysus and Silenus agrees to take him to see the god in exchange for the loan of a horse.

It is currently unknown whether or not the Hand of Midas can reverse the effects if a person or object (that touches the actual hand section) is turned to gold. According to legend, it belonged to the ...

Duffy focuses on an aspect of this well-known character King Midas and presents an imaginary response from his wife's viewpoint, providing fresh, thought-provoking and comical insight into their ...

A James Bond parody. Hercules meets Epsilon, an agent who wants to bring down King Midas, a greedy king whose touch turns everything into gold. Hercules investigates as a secret agent and learns that ...

There’s a brand new movie coming out soon called Tad the Lost Explorer and the Secret of King Midas and we can’t wait to tell you about it! It’s available to download and keep now and on DVD July 16th ...