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. Phrygia was by that time a Lydian subject. ДЄ third 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. 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. However, Homer does not mention Midas or Gordias, while instead mentioning two other Phrygian kings, Mygdon and Otreus.ДЄnother King Midas ruled Phrygia in the late 8th century BC, up until the sacking of Gordium by the Cimmerians, when he is said to have committed suicide. The legends told about this Midas and his father Gordias, credited with founding the Phrygian capital city Gordium and tying the Gordian Knot, indicate that they were believed to have lived sometime in the 2nd millennium BC, well before the Trojan War. According to Aristotle, legend held that Midas died of starvation as a result of his 'vain prayer' for the gold touch. The Phrygian city Midaeum was presumably named after him, and this is probably also the Midas that according to Pausanias founded Ancyra (today known as Ankara). This came to be called the golden touch, or the Midas touch.

The most famous King Midas is popularly remembered in Greek mythology for his ability to turn everything he touched into gold. Midas ( / Л€ m aЙЄ d Й™ s/ Greek: ОњОЇОґО±П‚) is the name of one of at least three members of the royal house of Phrygia.

In the Nathaniel Hawthorne version of the Midas myth, Midas' daughter turns to a golden statue when he touches her (illustration by Walter Crane for the 1893 edition)

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