Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Midas: The Golden Touch and the Ass’s Ears
  Local and lesser — Phrygian · Roman handbook / Ovidian narrative of Greek Phrygian legends (labeled); Herodotus on historical Midas noted
• Silenus Captured by Midas (Phrygian)
  Local and lesser — Phrygian / Dionysiac · Classical Greek notices + handbook; Ovid/Hyginus labeled for continuous narrative link to the golden touch
• Apollo vs Pan: Musical Contest (Midas Judge)
  Local and lesser — Phrygian / musical contest · Roman transmission (Ovid) of the Tmolus contest — separate from the thin ass-ears summary in 003 and from Apollo–Marsyas (02/016)
• Gordius and the Gordian Knot
  Local and lesser — Phrygian foundation / Alexander omen · Arrianic / Plutarchan — peasant-king; wagon knot; Alexander’s cut or loosing

Places appearing with them

• Court of Midas
• Gardens of Midas
• Grove
• Mysia
• Phrygian ploughland
• River Pactolus
• Spring of Midas
• Troy

Themes

• Binding
• Birth
• Contest
• Hospitality
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• War