The Golden Age of King Midas
Author | : C. Brian Rose |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-02-13 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781934536858 |
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Author | : C. Brian Rose |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-02-13 |
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ISBN | : 9781934536858 |
Author | : Gareth Darbyshire |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2016-08-10 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0924171847 |
Gordion is frequently remembered as the location of an intricate knot ultimately cut by Alexander, but in antiquity it served as the center of the Phrygian kingdom that ruled much of Asia Minor during the early millennium B.C.E. The site lies approximately seventy kilometers southeast of Ankara in central Turkey, at the intersection of the great empires of the East (Assyrians, Babylonians, and Hittites) and the West (Greeks and Romans). Consequently, it occupied a strategic position on nearly all trade routes that linked the Mediterranean and the Near East. The University of Pennsylvania has been excavating at Gordion since 1950, unearthing a wide range of discoveries that span nearly four millennia. The vast majority of these artifacts attests to the city's interactions with the other great kingdoms and city states of the Near East during the Iron Age and Archaic periods (ca. 950-540 B.C.E.), especially Assyria, Urartu, Persia, Lydia, Greece, and the Neo-Hittite city-states of North Syria, among others. Gordion is thus the ideal centerpiece of an exhibition dealing with Anatolia and its neighbors during the first millennium B.C.E. Through a special agreement signed between the Republic of Turkey and the University of Pennsylvania, Turkey has loaned the Penn Museum more than one hundred artifacts gathered from four museums in Turkey (Ankara, Gordion, Istanbul, and Antalya) for an exhibition titled The Golden Age of King Midas. The exhibition features most of the material recovered in Tumulus MM, or the "Midas Mound" (ca. 740 B.C.E.), which was the burial site of King Midas's father, as well as a number of objects found in a series of Lydian tombs. The Turkish loan has made possible a uniquely comprehensive and elaborate exhibition that also features a disparate group of rarely seen objects from the Penn Museum's own collections, particularly from sites in the Ukraine, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Greece. With the historic King Midas (ca. 740-700 B.C.E.) as its guiding theme, the exhibition illuminates the relationships Phrygia maintained with Lydia, Persia, Assyria, and Greece. The accompanying catalog includes full-color illustrations and essays that expound on the sites and objects of the exhibition.
Author | : Charlotte Craft |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2003-09-23 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 006054063X |
"There once lived a very rich king called Midas who believed that nothing was more precious than gold." So begins this imaginative and breathtaking retelling of the myth of the man with the golden touch. When a mysterious stranger offers to reward Midas for a kindness, the king does not hesitate: He wishes that all he touches would turn to gold. To his delight, his wish is granted and he soon sets about transforming his ordinary palace into a place of golden beauty. But to his dismay, when he accidentally turns his beloved daughter into a golden statue, Midas learns that what at first seems a blessing can also become a curse.
Author | : Annie Sullivan |
Publisher | : Blink |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2018-08-14 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0310765978 |
Gold is wealth. Wealth is power. Power is a curse. This captivating fantasy adventure—the untold story of the daughter King Midas turned to gold—will dazzle you with the kind of action, adventure, twists, turns, and a bit of romance to make any fan of magic and mythology greedy for more. After King Midas’s gift—or curse—almost killed his daughter, he relinquished The Touch forever. Ten years later, Princess Kora still bears the consequences of her father’s wish: her skin shines golden, rumors follow her everywhere she goes, and she harbors secret powers that are getting harder to hide. Kora spends her days concealed behind gloves and veils. It isn’t until a charming duke arrives that Kora believes she could indeed be loved. But their courtship is disrupted when a thief steals treasures her father needs to survive. Thanks to Kora’s unique ability to sense gold, she sails off on her quest to find the missing items. Magic, mythology, fantasy, and pirate adventures charge through every page as Kora learns that not everything is what it seems—not her companions, not the thieves, and not even Kora herself. A Touch of Gold: Is told from the perspective of Kora, King Midas’s daughter and a strong female protagonist Is a clean fantasy adventure, perfect for fans of the #1 New York Times bestselling books, The Wrath & the Dawn and Cinder Is an enchanting and captivating fantasy adventure/fairy tale retelling Features a beautifully decorated cover Will have strong appeal to readers ages 13 & up
Author | : Eric Metaxas |
Publisher | : ABDO |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781599613093 |
Retells the story of the king whose wish that everything be gold is granted by the gods, only to discover that the seeming gift is really a curse.
Author | : Lynne Reid Banks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1995-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780807275160 |
Author | : Beatrice Alexander |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 61 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Mythology |
ISBN | : |
Includes The Flame-Giver, Pandora's Box, The Gorgon's Head, The Story of King Midas, The Sun-God and the Mortal, How Phaeton Drove the Horses of the Sun, The Golden Fleece, Cupid and Psyche, The Labors of Hercules, The Six Pomegranate Seeds, and The Wanderings of Ulysses.
Author | : Annie Sullivan |
Publisher | : Blink |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2020-09-22 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 031076825X |
Curses and queens. Pirates and kings. Gods and magic. The final saga of a princess cursed by Midas’s touch, a vengeful Greek god, and a dazzling kingdom in the balance. After barely surviving thieving, bloodthirsty pirates and a harrowing quest at sea to retrieve her stolen treasure, Kora finds readjusting to palace life just as deadly. Her people openly turn against her, threatening to overthrow her as heir to the throne due to fear of her magical powers. When Dionysus puts out a challenge to kill the girl with the golden touch and burn down her kingdom, it’s not just her future on the throne in danger. Kora’s life and entire kingdom are now on contract. With no other choice, Kora sets out to find Dionysus, journeying to the mysterious disappearing island of Jipper. If she wants to save her kingdom and have any chance at reversing her father’s curse, she will have to enter into a deadly game with Dionysus, the greatest trickster the world, or the underworld, has ever seen. A Curse of Gold: Is the highly-anticipated sequel to A Touch of Gold by author Annie Sullivan Is an enchanting and captivating fantasy adventure/fairy tale retelling, perfect for fans of The Wrath and the Dawn and Cinder Is told from the perspective of Kora, King Midas’s daughter and a strong female protagonist Features a beautifully decorated cover Will have strong appeal to readers ages 13 & up
Author | : Ovid |
Publisher | : Castrovilli Giuseppe |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 1858 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Ovid was a major Roman poet during the reign of Augustus. Ovid, along with Horace and Virgil, helped form Latin literature as the world came to know it. Ovid's most famous works are The Metamorphoses and his collections of love poetry.The Metamorphoses of Ovid is an epic poem of fifteen books that contain over 250 myths. The stories of The Metamorphoses cover the history of the world from its creation all the way through the time of Julius Caesar. This book has influenced other great authors such as Shakespeare, Dante, and Chaucer.
Author | : Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2016-05-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781355177920 |
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