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Midas asked that whatever he might touch should be changed into gold. Midas rejoiced in his new power, which he hastened to put to the test. He touched an oak twig and a stone; both turned to gold. Overjoyed, as soon as he got home, he touched every rose in the rose garden, and all became gold. He ordered the servants to set a feast on the table.
The myth, set in Macedon, of Silenus discovered drunken by Midas can be dated to the Hellenistic period simply from its setting, a rose garden. In Athens, the first private pleasure gardens appear in literary sources in the fourth century. [17] The Academy had its site in an ancient grove of plane trees sacred to an obscure archaic hero, Akademos.
Rosa 'Midas Touch' (aka JACtou) is a yellow Hybrid tea rose cultivar, bred by American hybridizer, Jack E. Christensen, in 1992. The rose was introduced in the United States by Bear Creek Gardens, Inc. in 1994 as 'Midas Touch'. The rose won the All-America Rose Selections (AARS) award in 1994.
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The Midas Mound Tumulus at Gordion, dated c. 740 BC. According to the classical historians Strabo, [35] Eusebius and Julius Africanus, the king of Phrygia during this time was another Midas. This historical Midas is believed to be the same person named as Mita in Assyrian texts from the period and identified as king of the Mushki.
Rose, C. Brian and Gareth Darbyshire, eds. 2011. The New Chronology of Iron Age Gordion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum. Rose, C. Brian and Gareth Darbyshire, eds. 2016. The Golden Age of King Midas/Kral Midas’ın Altın Çağı, catalogue of the Penn Museum exhibition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum.
'Anna's Promise' is a grandiflora rose cultivar. Its flowers are orange and pink in color, with a copper reverse. Rosa 'Good as Gold' is a hybrid tea rose, bred by Tom Carruth before 2013. Its stock parents are 'Golden Beauty' and 'About Face'. The flowers are orange and yellow with touches of red. [3]
Rhodanthe's name means "rose flower", a composite word made up by the Greek words ῥόδον meaning "rose", [3] and ἄνθος meaning "flower, blossom". [4] Rhodon is the origin the English word rose, and seems to have been borrowed into the Greek language from the East. [5]