king of Phrygia
750 BCE to 696 BCE
Midas or King Midas is popularly remembered in Greek mythology for his ability to turn everything he touched into gold.
This was called the Golden touch, or the Midas touch.
He bears some relation to the historical Mita, king of the Mushki in Western Anatolia in the later 8th century BCE.
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