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King Midas What is Myth' A myth can be an established story from a culture whose author is usually unknown. It is rooted from ancient folk-beliefs from a cultural aspect. It is used usually as supernatural to infer natural events which would explain from a cultural view of humanity and the universe. From ancient history myths and fables have been converted in different text which usually delivers the same moral. The reason why there are many versions of one myth is because years and years ago people didn’t write down the stories; Instead, it was passed down from generations to generations verbally and after a period of time tales were converted into several variants. Midas, the king of Phrygia, is a myth mostly everyone had encountered throughout ones’ lives. In this particular Midas’ story Sileneus, Dionysus’ patron, was found in his garden where he was drunk. Midas took care of him by feeding him meat and drinks he loved and then took him back to Dionysus. This pleased Dionysus, the god of wine, and told Midas to reward him with anything he would like. Midas, the greedy king, asked “grant me this boon then that whatever I touch may turn midas, gold, daughter, turned, laomedon, text, midas’, tale, golden, touch, myth, greedy, dionysus, variants, man, variant, two, everything, anchor, wealth, told, love, garden, water, particular, marygold, made, give, father, both, being, because, after, without, touched, stranger