person
Midas
also: Berecyntian hero
Legendary king of Phrygia; cursed by the golden touch he had wished for, and later given an ass's ears for preferring Pan's pipe to Apollo's lyre.
Reading notes
- Metamorphoses §11.322 King Midas
Legendary king of Phrygia, proverbial for folly and greed; granted and then cursed by the golden touch, and later given an ass's ears.