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In the Nathaniel Hawthorne version of the Midas myth, Midas' daughter turns to a golden statue when he touches her (illustration by Walter Crane for the 1893 edition). Midas (/ ˈ m aɪ d ə s /; Ancient Greek: Μίδας) was a king of Phrygia with whom many myths became associated, as well as two later members of the Phrygian royal house.
The Chocolate Touch is a children's book by Patrick Skene Catling, first published in the US in 1957. John Midas is delighted when, through a magical gift, everything his lips touch turns into chocolate. The story is patterned after the myth of King Midas, whose magic turned everything he touched into gold.
Midas was entered into the Stationers' Register on 4 October 1591; it was first published in 1592 in a quarto printed by Thomas Scarlet for Joan Broome. She was the widow of William Broome, the bookseller who issued reprints of Lyly's Campaspe and Sapho and Phao in 1591; the widow Broome herself published the first editions of Lyly's Endymion (1591) and Gallathea (1592).
When Bacchus comes to retrieve Silenus, he grants Midas a wish for his gracious care of Silenus. Midas asks to have whatever he touches turn to gold. Midas accidentally turns his beloved daughter into gold and is told by Bacchus to seek a mystic pool, which will restore him to normal. Midas leaves on his quest.
Bob Geldof may have disavowed his 1984 new wave ... after Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind 1997.”) ... Aitken and Waterman ruled over the late-’80s U.K. scene with a Midas-touched fist ...
A former top cop of a Virginia sheriff’s office molested a 9-year-old relative on a Carnival cruise ship earlier this year, a Miami federal jury found.
Jennifer named her 5-year-old son, Finley John William, after his grandfather. "He definitely looks like a Candy. He has my dad's hair for sure," Jennifer says, noting that the little boy also ...
Midas Touch or the Midas Touch may refer to: Midas touch, a Greek myth in which King Midas turned anything he touched to gold; Film. The Midas Touch, a British ...