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Unusually for the era, Midas was, in its original printing, divided into both numbered Acts and Scenes. Suggested scene settings, however, are adopted from Warwick Bond’s edition of the play.
A. Midas as Allegory. The first half of John Lyly's Midas recounts the Phrygian king's ill-considered acquisition of his famous golden touch. Once attached with the power to turn anything he came in contact with to gold, Midas used his new-found wealth to take over much of Asia Minor, both directly through military
Ovid's story on King Midas and the Golden Touch is presented in the Latin original with an interlinear translation and a running commentary, which may serve as a teacher's guide for a Latin translation class. This article proposes a sustained politicized reading of the myth of Midas in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
It is noteworthy that Ovid's mythological account of the Midas story tends to support the supposition of a friendly relationship between Phrygia and Lydia during Midas 's reign. His version reports the following sequence of events. The god Bacchus (Dionysus) returns to
The story of Midas’s rise to kingship, as told to Alexander at Gordium, and symbols related to that story appearing in art and monuments of the Sixth and Fifth-Centuries, give reason to believe that the Persians were aware of this precedent.
Mrs Midas is now afraid of her husband - tone has become more serious. Word choice - connotations of turning to stone - like he is doing - she worries if it will happen to her. Associated with the dead - their relationship is dead. A time that was idyllically happy and peaceful. Simile - compares undressing each other to opening a gift or something
THE MYTH OF MIDAS’ GOLDEN TOUCH Midas famously requested that anything he touched would turn to gold, although when he discovered the peril of his wish, he begged Dionysus to reverse the spell. Lydia struck the first coins in gold and electrum (an alloy of gold and silver). © The Trustees of the British Museum. All rights reserved.
