Midas
First appears: The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2
Midas was buried beneath a tomb marked by a bronze maiden. Its epitaph tells passers-by, “Midas here lies buried.”
In Part 2 of The Contest of Homer and Hesiod, his sons Xanthus and Gorgus heard Homer’s epics and commissioned him to compose an epitaph for their father’s tomb.
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Life events
- Midas lay buried beneath the bronze maiden’s tomb.(Homer’s Epigrams)
- “ever remaining on this mournful tomb, I tell the passer-by that Midas here lies buried.”
- Xanthus and Gorgus commissioned Homer to compose an epitaph for their father Midas’s tomb.(The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2)
The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2
- child: Xanthus “Now Xanthus and Gorgus, son of Midas the king, heard his epics and invited him to compose a epitaph for the tomb of their father on which was a bronze figure of a maiden bewailing the death of Midas.”
- child: Gorgus “Now Xanthus and Gorgus, son of Midas the king, heard his epics and invited him to compose a epitaph for the tomb of their father on which was a bronze figure of a maiden bewailing the death of Midas.”
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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.