The most famous King Midas is popularly remembered in Greek mythologyfor his ability to turn everything he touched into gold. This came to becalled the golden touch, or the Midas touch. The legends told aboutthis Midas and his father Gordias, credited with founding the Phrygiancapital city Gordium and tying the Gordian Knot, indicate that they werebelieved to have lived sometime in the 2nd millennium BC, well beforethe Trojan War. However, Homer does not mention Midas or Gordias, whileinstead mentioning two other Phrygian kings, Mygdon and Otreus.
