King Midas of Phrygia

A Key to Egyptian Chronology of the 19th Dynasty

Late in the eighth century before Christ, there lived a famous and powerful king of central Anatolia, remembered by the Greeks as King Midas of Phrygia. Midas was romanticized by Greek poets and playwrights as a man who was granted a wish, and chose that anything he touched would turn to gold. The story ended in tragedy when he hugged his daughter, and …