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
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
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.
[edit] 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)
