CLASS102 Chapter Notes - Chapter ACM: Silenus

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLASS102
• Professor: Craig Taylor

Document Summary

Midas helped return silenus wish so midas chose to have everything he touches turns to gold to bacchus , so he was granted one. , water, food all of it turned to gold he was going hungry. " he begged bacchus to take his gifts away. " bacchus did , he must go to the river sardis ,and lydian hills to wash crimes away. " midas now loathing riches gave his heart" to pan. " pan sang his songs ; pipes , saw his music as better than apollo. " old tmo1us asjudge (unequal competition) apollo played his lyre (very decked out and throws awarded apollo as winner. " midas challenged the results , so apollo turned his ears to donkeys. " he allowed his barber to see his ears, swearing him to secrecy . barber dug a whole and whispered the secret to the earth .