anyone?anyone? i know he turned everything to gold and he had donkey ears...is there anything else? and no one give me any crap about me doing my own work because i did i just need to know if i missed anything.
2007-02-03 12:21:38 · 9 answers · asked by I Pity Da Fool 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
You missed the boat along time ago, lazy @ss.
2007-02-03 12:24:34 · answer #1 · answered by INDRAG? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
â¼ In the middle of the story after he gets the power to change everything he touches into gold, he realizes that the power is too great and he can't eat or even touch the people he loved.
â¼ So he asks the Greek god Apollo to take the power away from him. As punishment for his foolish request, Apollo gives him donkey ears.
â¼ King Midas runs around wearing a tall hat and only he and his barber know about it. Unfortunately the barber was a big gossip and eventually he could no longer hold the secret in. So he goes off to the banks of a river, digs a little hole and whispers the secret into it.
â¼ The river reeds heard him and while telling each other, the wind picks up the info and everyone in the kingdom finds out. Eventually Midas finds out but instead of punishing the barber he forgives him and Apollo takes away his donkey ears.
â¼ At the end of the story he teases his grandchildren by saying that when he touches their hair, it turns to gold and scares them a bit.
2007-02-03 20:27:56 · answer #2 · answered by ♥☺ bratiskim∞! ☺♥ 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually, King Midas was given donkey ears by Apollo for a different reason. He had already washed away his gold curse at this point.
What happened was that he was asked by Apollo to judge a music contest between the god and Pan, with Apollo playing the lyre and Pan his panpipes. When Midas favored the hooved deity, Apollo declared that Midas had the ears of an ***, and could not distinguish between the best music and the worst. With that, Midas sprouted a pair of hairy donkey ears.
The rest of the story has been accurately conveyed by others.
2007-02-03 21:56:45 · answer #3 · answered by DiphallusTyranus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
King Midas was noble and kind, but stupid.
One day he found a Satyr (goat/human nature spirit thing) asleep in his garden and sp[ared his life. The satyr was a follower of Dionyses, so Dionysus granted Midas a wish. His wish was that everything he touched turned to gold. Im sure you know the rest of that story. Then, one day, Athena made a flute out of the bone of the Gorgon Medusa. When she couldnt play it she got mad and cursed it. It was then found by yet another Satyr, who played so well that Apollo got mad at him and challangedhim to a music showdown. He picked Midas as the judge. Although Apollo played better, Midas liked the Satyr and voted in favour of him. So Apollo cursed him saying "since you hear like an ***, you shall have ears like an ***" and thats about it.
2007-02-03 23:25:41 · answer #4 · answered by goatman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
King Midas wished that everything he touched would turn to gold. This wasn't the greatest of ideas, as he later learned. He couldn't eat, because the food would change to solid gold in his fingers, and even if someone else dropped it into his mouth. What caused him to deeply regret the wish was his daughter rushing up to hug him, and being changed to a large golden statue.
2007-02-03 20:28:44 · answer #5 · answered by Teresa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
donkey ears? I never heard that one, the story I heard was that King Midas (who was king of Pessinus, in the city of Phrygia) was a very greedy man and the gods granted him one wish (fully knowing it would teach him a lesson), he asked that all he touched would turn to gold. Which turned out to be a lousy wish, he found that out when he tried to eat and everything he touched (big surprise) turned to gold. It wasn't all that bad until his daughter ran into his arms and gave him a hug, which automatically turned her into gold. Then he pleaded with the gods to take back the wish, they told him to wash in the river Pactolis. Where the shores turned to gold (supposedly). Hope that helps, it's all I know.
Oh! his daughter's name was Zoe (it means life).
Also, if you need quick and easy facts, go on wikipedia.org, it has tons of info.
2007-02-03 21:52:24 · answer #6 · answered by trance_gemni 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
n Greek mythology, Midas (in Greek, ÎιδαÏ, often referred as king Midas) is popularly remembered for his ability to turn everything he touched into gold: the "Midas touch". Midas was king[1] of Pessinus, a city of Phrygia, who as a child was adopted by the king Gordias and Cybele, goddess whose consort he was, and who by some accounts was the goddess-mother of Midas himself.[2] Midas was known for being a hedonist, and an excellent rose gardener,[3] and according to Iliad (v.860), he had one son, Lityerses, the demonic reaper of men; but in some variations of the myth he had a daughter, Zoë ("Life"), instead.
2007-02-03 20:25:43 · answer #7 · answered by littlblueyes 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know cause when I had to do the story I asked the Yahoo Answers ppl to give me the answers too. A mind is a terrible thing to waste. ( not really I'm just kidding)
It is actually ok to waste your mind. I don't think you missed anything in the story though. (morale; be careful what you ask for cause you just might get it.)
2007-02-03 20:28:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
King Midas - his curse was actually a gift from bacchus - here's the story - http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/bulf/bulf05.htm
2007-02-03 20:25:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋