Mythology - Greek - Midas

Midas was a real king of Phrygia in the 8th century BCE. He was very wealthy and lost his kingdom to Cimmerians around 696 BCE. Midas became a popular figure in Greek mythos as a cautionary tale against greed when he was gifted the ability to turn everything he touched to gold by Dionysus, which proved to be a curse when he could not eat or drink anything and ended up turning his daughter to gold when touched her. He begged Dionysus to take the gift back, and the god did telling the king to bathe in the river Pactolus and that anything he put in the river or was touched with the river's water would become normal again. The first thing he saved was his daughter.