Midas

Family: Phrygian · Role: builder of Ancyra · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 4

Life events

• Midas builds Ancyra, a city of the Phrygians.(Book 1 · Chapter 4 · 📍 Ancyra)
  • “having captured Ancyra, a city of the Phrygians which Midas the son of Gordias had formerly built.”
• Midas captures Silenus by pouring wine into a well.(Book 1 · Chapter 4)
  • With: Silenus
  • “which Midas, they say, poured wine into that he might capture Silenus.”

Book 1 · Chapter 4

• parent: Gordias “Ancyra, a city of the Phrygians which Midas the son of Gordias had formerly built.”
• with Silenus (Midas attempted to capture Silenus.) “which Midas, they say, poured wine into that he might capture Silenus.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.