I think there's a Scandinavian country that it's confusing how many kings they had with a certain name because there were so many and some of the ordinal numbers got skipped.
IT'S GOOD TO BE BACK, SOLO FAM! Thank you for being patient while I recharged my batteries this month! To show my appreciate I decided to cover a story that you've been requesting since I first started Mythology Explained - here's hoping it was worth the wait :)
I only commented about it a couple times on your posts but I’m so glad you did this video I have no idea why but I have always liked this story for some reason growing up. I hope life is treating you and your loved ones well 🥰
The book "The Disappearing Spoon" (Sam Kean) offers in chapter 13 an interesting insight into King Midas: the tin mines in his kingdom had a higher-than-typical concentration of zinc. Thus, while he was a Bronze Age king, the metal in his kingdom would have been a material not seen elsewhere--brass. It's not hard to imagine that some travelers who saw peasants using gold-colored tools could have thought that the kingdom had a limitless supply of gold.
Knowing Riordan's books as I do and the amount of research he puts into them, he's probably very much aware that it comes from Hawthorne but he loves tragedy.
Speaking of Midas' Touch, there is a book that revolves around his daughter whom is still curse with a golden body but able to live a semi human life. It is called "A Touch of Gold " by Annie Sullivan followed by the sequel "A Curse of Gold".
@@cedartheyeah.justyeah.3967 If you can get through first few chapters until they reach sailing out to sea then yes. It depends on how the readers feel about the book.
I started reading a comic recently called The Masked Fables and it has a prophetic hitlist of evil spirits ruining fairy tales and myths in it where Midas seems to be a potential future character (the line in the prophecy refers to "The Ruler with a king who reigns with bountiful hands") so this is pretty great atm. In case anyone is curious, it has already concluded its first story arc with Snow White, next up is confirmed to be Peter Pan. The full prophecy is: The Lover with a maiden who traded her heart The Explorer with a wanderer who constantly chases a new start. The Orphan with a boy who is forever lost The Scholar with a pupil who seeks knowledge at any cost The Child with a son who can not tell a lie The Sage with a hero who refuses to die The Caretaker with a soul who's voice is forsaken The Artist with a craftsmen whoes eyes have been taken The Rebel with a lord who is resolute where he stands The Ruler with a king who reigns with bountiful hands The Jester with an idler whose smile must never cease And the Warrior with a killer who will never find peace
Some popular guesses so far: A son who can not tell a lie: Pinocchio A soul who's voice is forsaken: Little Mermaid A king who reigns with bountiful hands: Midas An idler who's smile must never cease: Alice in Wonderland (I don't think so, though, I'm going with a more obscure Russian tale called Emelya and the Magic Fish) Hero who refuses to die: Rumplestitskin (or rather, the maiden in the story) A pupil who seeks knowledge at any cost: Merlin A killer who will never find peace: the Huntsman (already a character in Snow White and appears here as an antagonist)
When I was in third grade we learned about Hercules, and I was so fascinated by his story, because up until then Samson from the Bible was the strongest man I knew (next to my dad but come on I was a kid we all thought that if we had a father figure). My teacher gave me this giant book full of Greek myths and surprisingly King Goldy Boi was in it. After I devored that book my teacher gave me one on Egyptian myths, and so my love for myths was born. Donkey ear Midas is my favorite story of all time
i remember reading a book in elementary school that was basically king midas except instead of gold it was chocolate and instead of a king it was some random kid
I remember watching an animated short of King Midas as a kid. Freaked me the fuck out for years- Edit: i found the old video. Its still fucking creepy as hell
I read a book as a kid called The Chocolate Touch. Basically Mjdas, but with chocolate. A kid who hated his veggies was given a magical power to turn anything that touches his lips to turn into chocolate. For anyone wondering how that went, the cover shows him kissing his mom on the cheek...
I also remember watching a Smurf episode where smurfette was able to turn everything into smurfberry candy. But after eating too much she got a stomachache.
Was it code name kids next door? The had a kid that fell in a boiling chocolate River, at first it seemed like he drowned but instead he became chocolate and got a chocolate Midas touch.
@@potato5413 It was in Voyage of the Dawn Treader. In publication order (where book one is The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe), it’s the third book. In chronological order (where book one is The Magician’s Nephew), it is the fifth book. I read VotDT when I was 10 or 11. When they come upon the lake with the body turned to gold lying at the bottom, it frightened me. Can you imagine being really hot and wanting to cool yourself down, then diving into crystal clear water, never knowing life again? It just freaked me out. After that, I couldn’t put it down! I was enthralled.
@@LuinTathren I remember watching and reading about that scene the only thing I thought was if you drank the water from a straw would your insides turn to gold. Or would you just become a human geese and poop gold every other day.
I one time read a story about a child who could turn every thing he touched into chocolate and it had an mcu type ending were there could have been a sequel.
There's another kind of reference you missed. In the short lived Cartoon "Dave The Barbarian" One of the characters got the ability to turn things he touched into cheese.
Way back in the late '80s maybe early '90s or later '90s The Muppets released a VHS of retold fairy tales and King Midas's golden touch was one of the stories that they did and I found it pretty hilarious when I was little. It was Kermit as King Midas and the Miss Piggy as his queen. Their take on the golden touch being devastating was that King Midas touched himself and turned himself into gold.
@@rainbowrose8802 Elsa is a reference to the Disney movie Frozen. In the movie, Elsa wears gloves to prevent her from accidentally turning what she touches to ice.
I've had a theory since the first time I heard the Midas Touch story. What if Midas had lost his hands and needed prosthetics? Being a very wealthy king of a gold rich territory, he would have had them made in ostentatious fashion. The story of Midas Goldhands could easily have changed into a legend about a king whose touch to changed everything to gold within a few tellings. That is assuming that there is even a grain truth to his existence.
Speaking of references, I remember a game called Tomb Raider where you actually find a giant hand of Midas which, if you're not careful or overly curious, you can step on and turn yourself into gold and get a game over instead of using as you should to win the level.
In one kids' adaptation of Greek myths I read in elementary school, the two Midas myths were tied together rather neatly. Midas' golden touch wasn't granted by Dionysus, but by Apollo in a sort of "be-careful-what-you-wish-for" deal. You see, Midas had scorned Apollo's careless scattering of gold (that is, the sun's rays) over all the earth, and wished that he had the ability to turn everything he touched to gold--he wouldn't be so foolish and wasteful as Apollo. So Apollo granted his wish, and the usual version of the myth (golden princess and all) went on from there. When he begged the gods to remove the golden touch, Apollo appeared before him to rebuke him for his blasphemy. He removed the curse, but didn't let Midas off that easily...since Midas had been so stubborn and foolish to blaspheme the son of Zeus, he would bear the ears of a mule. So the other part of the myth went the same way....but in this version, once Midas realized how his secret had been revealed, he forgave his servant and publicly confessed his blasphemy and its consequences, and the mule's ears vanished now that Midas had shown proper respect for the gods.
Origins of Eris from Greek mythology. Btw, I watched your Aphrodite episode earlier and noticed you said Eris was the goddess of disagreement. That's incorrect, as she's the goddess of chaos. Hope to see some Sinbad footage of course.
King midas is also referenced in the movie "Siegfried and Roy: masters of the impossible". He has a daughter called Estella and a son called Mallory. The Midas curse is given to king Midas by the deadly sin named, Avarice, the iniquity of greed. Estella falls to the curse of the golden touch that with every touch, gold is taken from the earth and used to coat the thing Midas touched. Mallory is controlled by Marzot, the personification of envy due to him being envious of his father, because he wanted his father's kingdom. The river pactolus was used a the lair for Medusa which Siegfried and Roy go to, to get some of it's water to use on Midas to cure him of the golden touch curse and to free Midas from the entity, greed.
I've known the myth of King Midas from beginning to end since 5th grade. Starting with kid-friendly versions, of course, though less censored than Disney. The Greeks did know how to do a good morality tale!
I'd heard of the daughter-to-gold version. I live in Canada and as a child I was told the joke "Everything Midas touched, turned into a muffler" (we have Midas auto repair stores here - it began as Midas Muffler back in it's inception).
Watching your videos every night before bed has become a ritual for me. Thank you for putting in the work you do man. You are awesome and the knowledge you drop is greatly appreciated. Much love wishing y’a happiness 💯
7:35 I suspected that Hawthorne's retellings were the source of that version. His collection of stories, under the titles of "A Wonder Book" and "Tanglewood Tales" was my introduction to ancient Greek mythology at a very early age. The first one I read, "The Chimera", is still my favorite of them.
Very nice!!! Good work!!! In Greece besides the "Midas touch" saying we have a saying about Paktolos that has to do with money and wealth (he has/there is a Paktolos of money)!!!
welp to be far dionysus litt spend the past ceturies with out anything to drink while dealing with demigods with hormones i be like him if i suffered like that
I always thought it was touch from his hands that turned everything gold. His feet did not turn the ground gold. His clothes that were not touched by his hands were not turned gold either.
"After doing a lot of digging and intense research I can say with complete certainty and confidence that we still don't for sure" - a historian's favorite sentence lol Great video!! It was really interesting, glad to see you're back🙂
In Star Wars there is a scene in which Han Solo shot an enemy underneath a table (killing him) with a hidden gun, however when Disney took over the Star Wars franchise they edited it in order to make it appear as although the enemy shot first and Han was merely defending himself, which upset Star Wars fans, in turn forming the phrase Han Shot First.
@@incompetenttuber5730 Well, considering all that Disney has done to the franchise... At any rate, Lucas didn't want Han to be a straight-up cold-blooded killer, but I think he was simply acting in self-defense (his back was literally up against the wall) and outdrew Greedo.
I remember watching a kids show that featured the horse/donkey ears tale. The difference between that and your version was that the reeds didn’t tell the secret. Instead, they were used to make a pan flute to entertain the king. Whenever they were played, the secret was quietly whispered and the kings crown/turban would move itself up to reveal his secret. Eventually, he revealed to everyone that he had those strange ears and everyone accepted him
I just wanted to say I loved the video. I am trying to write a short story about Lityerses becoming the King of Phrygia, and in which he suffers from a similar fate to his father. Also, I love the painting in the back from Goodfellas.
I think there are also myths about Midas getting a job at Hades, together with Radamantis and another king... They seem to have been employed by the God of the Dead as judges to decide what kind of afterlife each soul would have in the Underworld...
The story I heard was, Midas was a king who loved gold. He couldn't get enough of it. So, one day he wished for everything he touched to turn into gold. He soon regretted his wish because, just as in the myth, all his food and drink turned into gold. And also, just as in the myth, he turned his daughter into gold.
King midas and the Golden touch. One of my favorite Greek stories. @JonSolo, please do a messed up origins of Helen of Troy. We want to know the real story. What really happened with the characters involved with the kingdom of Troy and its fall
“If the royal family cared about confusing people with their names then there wouldn’t be six Georges”
*france with 18 king Louis*: hold my wine
I think there's a Scandinavian country that it's confusing how many kings they had with a certain name because there were so many and some of the ordinal numbers got skipped.
Also there's a John I of England and John VII of Scotland (i think i got that right)--same person.
@@spooniesarah I think that's James, not John
Hold my baguette
@@spooniesarah It was James I of England and James VI of Scotland :)
IT'S GOOD TO BE BACK, SOLO FAM! Thank you for being patient while I recharged my batteries this month! To show my appreciate I decided to cover a story that you've been requesting since I first started Mythology Explained - here's hoping it was worth the wait :)
It's good to have you back
Dude I love your video. What's your arm tattoo?
I only commented about it a couple times on your posts but I’m so glad you did this video I have no idea why but I have always liked this story for some reason growing up. I hope life is treating you and your loved ones well 🥰
There's another story with this King where he is cursed to have donkey ears
good to have you back man
My ears are officially blessed to hear Jon Solo’s straight-faced sarcasm and voice!lol 😂😂😂
lmao it's good to be back! :)
@@JonSolo we missed you
@@JonSolo I missed you
@@JonSolo Oh, Do the true, dark, messed up origins of Dracula!!!!
As Fred Flintstone once sang: "Trust the Midas touch."
I'll show myself out now.
@Tylenol rruth
Damn, thats like a first season episode lol, you gotta be old 🤣😅😂
"Leave. Leave and dont ever come back. Go on get. Do t you get it i dont love you anymore get." - Half assed ole yeller quote
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You just stated what most of us who saw that tire commercial were thinking. 🤣
"touch me, midas, make me part of your design" the lyrics makes so much sense now
The book "The Disappearing Spoon" (Sam Kean) offers in chapter 13 an interesting insight into King Midas: the tin mines in his kingdom had a higher-than-typical concentration of zinc. Thus, while he was a Bronze Age king, the metal in his kingdom would have been a material not seen elsewhere--brass. It's not hard to imagine that some travelers who saw peasants using gold-colored tools could have thought that the kingdom had a limitless supply of gold.
Ruining childhoods all across the nation. Love it.
A Matt Patt prodigy
They call him the child slayer
Him and mat
@@carbondinamite2067 I was about to say that. Lol
Yes the perfect thing to do on the weekends
King: "Bring me a small Lyre."
Liar: "I didn't do it. I wasn't there. The check is in the mail!"
Bah dum tsss
@@LuinTathren thank you. Thank you.
*tears slide down my face* bravo bravo
@@redblushinrose I'd like to thank my writer, Mel Brooks.
@@silverbullet1620 Love the History of the world.
Knowing Riordan's books as I do and the amount of research he puts into them, he's probably very much aware that it comes from Hawthorne but he loves tragedy.
😢 I cried too many times while reading his books. I've even cried in public because of his books.
@@Bisexualdragon4042 me too. But for some reason I was laughing when he accidently turned his son to gold in the lost hero.
Same
Speaking of Midas' Touch, there is a book that revolves around his daughter whom is still curse with a golden body but able to live a semi human life. It is called "A Touch of Gold " by Annie Sullivan followed by the sequel "A Curse of Gold".
Is the book good?
@@cedartheyeah.justyeah.3967 If you can get through first few chapters until they reach sailing out to sea then yes. It depends on how the readers feel about the book.
@@grekoy Oh okay
bro they literally stole it from fortnite like the midas there is so much better
@@bartek1339 Shut up
I started reading a comic recently called The Masked Fables and it has a prophetic hitlist of evil spirits ruining fairy tales and myths in it where Midas seems to be a potential future character (the line in the prophecy refers to "The Ruler with a king who reigns with bountiful hands") so this is pretty great atm.
In case anyone is curious, it has already concluded its first story arc with Snow White, next up is confirmed to be Peter Pan. The full prophecy is:
The Lover with a maiden who traded her heart
The Explorer with a wanderer who constantly chases a new start.
The Orphan with a boy who is forever lost
The Scholar with a pupil who seeks knowledge at any cost
The Child with a son who can not tell a lie
The Sage with a hero who refuses to die
The Caretaker with a soul who's voice is forsaken
The Artist with a craftsmen whoes eyes have been taken
The Rebel with a lord who is resolute where he stands
The Ruler with a king who reigns with bountiful hands
The Jester with an idler whose smile must never cease
And the Warrior with a killer who will never find peace
I read The Masked Fables too! It's a really good comic/webtoon so far!
Hm. I'm trying to find out whose who
Some popular guesses so far:
A son who can not tell a lie: Pinocchio
A soul who's voice is forsaken: Little Mermaid
A king who reigns with bountiful hands: Midas
An idler who's smile must never cease: Alice in Wonderland (I don't think so, though, I'm going with a more obscure Russian tale called Emelya and the Magic Fish)
Hero who refuses to die: Rumplestitskin (or rather, the maiden in the story)
A pupil who seeks knowledge at any cost: Merlin
A killer who will never find peace: the Huntsman (already a character in Snow White and appears here as an antagonist)
@@rickypedia999 oh thank you.
I think the scholar with a pupil who seeks knowledge at any cost is the Sorcerer's Apprentice
I remember seeing this story from the HBO series Happily Ever After as a young kid.
I love that show
I remember that skittles commercial,good times
and the more risque wedding night one ;)
Same here
that ad was dark
you see, i don't know what you are talking about because i'm indonesian, but i don't think i want to know-
When I was in third grade we learned about Hercules, and I was so fascinated by his story, because up until then Samson from the Bible was the strongest man I knew (next to my dad but come on I was a kid we all thought that if we had a father figure). My teacher gave me this giant book full of Greek myths and surprisingly King Goldy Boi was in it. After I devored that book my teacher gave me one on Egyptian myths, and so my love for myths was born. Donkey ear Midas is my favorite story of all time
i remember reading a book in elementary school that was basically king midas except instead of gold it was chocolate and instead of a king it was some random kid
The Chocolate Touch. I remember that
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who remembers that book lmao
THIS BOOK SCARED ME FOR SUCH A LONG TIME!! I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT IT!!!
The Chocolate Touch-I loved that book as a kid!
Yeah I remember that too, the part where he’s so parched but can’t sate his thirst really got me
0:02 nostalgia sound for me when I was playing this one game on my iPad and when I completed this puzzle it played this sound after I completed it!
Please do the messed up origins if thoth from Egyptian mythology, it's a wild one
I loved how he was put in the Percy Jackson series where he was met by Jason, Leo, an Pipers.
Heyy, that’s why I’m here lmao.
I remember watching an animated short of King Midas as a kid. Freaked me the fuck out for years-
Edit: i found the old video. Its still fucking creepy as hell
lol
I read a book as a kid called The Chocolate Touch. Basically Mjdas, but with chocolate. A kid who hated his veggies was given a magical power to turn anything that touches his lips to turn into chocolate. For anyone wondering how that went, the cover shows him kissing his mom on the cheek...
@@rickypedia999 I thought it was his mom?
I also remember watching a Smurf episode where smurfette was able to turn everything into smurfberry candy. But after eating too much she got a stomachache.
Was it code name kids next door? The had a kid that fell in a boiling chocolate River, at first it seemed like he drowned but instead he became chocolate and got a chocolate Midas touch.
In the book The Lost Hero Midas had a son and daughter.
Key word "had" a son and daughter
@@splaylink9502 🤣
@@splaylink9502 lmao yeah
but the daughter was *so annoying*
@@JonSolo she really was
Omg when you said that the next vid would be about a king, I guessed Midas!
Me rn: 🔥
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look at the big brain on Braaaad!
@@JonSolo Lol keep doing what you do, it's wonderful learning about stuff like this 😄
I’ve been wanting this to happen I’m so stoked!😃
@@JonSolo Can you do olly olly oxenfree messed up origins?
Reminds me of Narnia (part 3) where there was water that would turn you into gold when you touch it.
I remember that. Also that’s the third one? I thought it was the second what other Narnia movies exist besides The Lion the witch and the wardrobe.
@@potato5413 I think it was the voyage of the dawn treader
@@viiyaxyz If that was the third one what’s the 2nd?
@@potato5413 It was in Voyage of the Dawn Treader. In publication order (where book one is The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe), it’s the third book. In chronological order (where book one is The Magician’s Nephew), it is the fifth book.
I read VotDT when I was 10 or 11. When they come upon the lake with the body turned to gold lying at the bottom, it frightened me. Can you imagine being really hot and wanting to cool yourself down, then diving into crystal clear water, never knowing life again? It just freaked me out. After that, I couldn’t put it down! I was enthralled.
@@LuinTathren I remember watching and reading about that scene the only thing I thought was if you drank the water from a straw would your insides turn to gold. Or would you just become a human geese and poop gold every other day.
Damn imagine taking a piss and your whole thing turns to gold midstream.
😂🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣😂😂
Gives a whole nother meaning to "golden shower"
I one time read a story about a child who could turn every thing he touched into chocolate and it had an mcu type ending were there could have been a sequel.
I read that too, I read it in school but the substitute loaded the wrong book on her kindle so I read a chapter of the hunger games. We were like 8
It was called the chocolate touch and a special needs girl in high school did a book report on it.
@@Dragontamer135 yeah that was it, we never finished it. Why does it matter if a special needs girl did a report about it tho?
@@rowanw1312 she was a friend of mine.
@@Dragontamer135 ok but why does it matter if she was special needs or not?
I'll be very surprised if the next episode is on "The Little Red Hen". I requested that one A LOT.
Hes got the midas touch, he touched it too much, hey goldmember, hey goldmember. Great I've got that bloody Austin powers song in my head!!!
There's another kind of reference you missed. In the short lived Cartoon "Dave The Barbarian" One of the characters got the ability to turn things he touched into cheese.
Way back in the late '80s maybe early '90s or later '90s The Muppets released a VHS of retold fairy tales and King Midas's golden touch was one of the stories that they did and I found it pretty hilarious when I was little. It was Kermit as King Midas and the Miss Piggy as his queen. Their take on the golden touch being devastating was that King Midas touched himself and turned himself into gold.
An actual "golden fountain" sounds like it'd be like passing a kidney stone 😩
I remember paying extra close attention when I read this part in one of Stephen Fry’s mythology books. Loved every moment!
Why didnt midas take a lesson out of Elsa's book and wear gloves?🤷♀️
The gloves were be gold
gold gloves
He could wear gloves made from cloth-of-gold. They’re flexible and, if the weave is tight, there would be no danger of accidental goldness.
Elsa didn't wrote the book 😳
@@rainbowrose8802 Elsa is a reference to the Disney movie Frozen. In the movie, Elsa wears gloves to prevent her from accidentally turning what she touches to ice.
I've had a theory since the first time I heard the Midas Touch story. What if Midas had lost his hands and needed prosthetics? Being a very wealthy king of a gold rich territory, he would have had them made in ostentatious fashion. The story of Midas Goldhands could easily have changed into a legend about a king whose touch to changed everything to gold within a few tellings. That is assuming that there is even a grain truth to his existence.
Welcome back we missed you
Speaking of references, I remember a game called Tomb Raider where you actually find a giant hand of Midas which, if you're not careful or overly curious, you can step on and turn yourself into gold and get a game over instead of using as you should to win the level.
Oh thank God feels like I've been waiting for a thousand years for another video
I took a little break this month but it's full steam ahead through the rest of the year :)
@@JonSolo "This is where the fun begins"
I like the version where Dionysos was understanding and thankful. Those are always nice.
"Unearthed" did a piece on Midas, including possible physical evidence that may have given rise to the myth.
In one kids' adaptation of Greek myths I read in elementary school, the two Midas myths were tied together rather neatly. Midas' golden touch wasn't granted by Dionysus, but by Apollo in a sort of "be-careful-what-you-wish-for" deal. You see, Midas had scorned Apollo's careless scattering of gold (that is, the sun's rays) over all the earth, and wished that he had the ability to turn everything he touched to gold--he wouldn't be so foolish and wasteful as Apollo. So Apollo granted his wish, and the usual version of the myth (golden princess and all) went on from there. When he begged the gods to remove the golden touch, Apollo appeared before him to rebuke him for his blasphemy. He removed the curse, but didn't let Midas off that easily...since Midas had been so stubborn and foolish to blaspheme the son of Zeus, he would bear the ears of a mule. So the other part of the myth went the same way....but in this version, once Midas realized how his secret had been revealed, he forgave his servant and publicly confessed his blasphemy and its consequences, and the mule's ears vanished now that Midas had shown proper respect for the gods.
Origins of Eris from Greek mythology. Btw, I watched your Aphrodite episode earlier and noticed you said Eris was the goddess of disagreement. That's incorrect, as she's the goddess of chaos. Hope to see some Sinbad footage of course.
King midas is also referenced in the movie "Siegfried and Roy: masters of the impossible". He has a daughter called Estella and a son called Mallory. The Midas curse is given to king Midas by the deadly sin named, Avarice, the iniquity of greed. Estella falls to the curse of the golden touch that with every touch, gold is taken from the earth and used to coat the thing Midas touched. Mallory is controlled by Marzot, the personification of envy due to him being envious of his father, because he wanted his father's kingdom. The river pactolus was used a the lair for Medusa which Siegfried and Roy go to, to get some of it's water to use on Midas to cure him of the golden touch curse and to free Midas from the entity, greed.
I've known the myth of King Midas from beginning to end since 5th grade. Starting with kid-friendly versions, of course, though less censored than Disney. The Greeks did know how to do a good morality tale!
Never been so early 🤧
I'd heard of the daughter-to-gold version.
I live in Canada and as a child I was told the joke "Everything Midas touched, turned into a muffler" (we have Midas auto repair stores here - it began as Midas Muffler back in it's inception).
Finally I've been waiting😁
I didn’t know this was a Greek myth. This was one of my favorite stories with morals as a kid.
I was wondering when this was coming 👀
You make any topic appear interesting, such great story telling skills! Love your videos, don’t ever stop :)
lmao my dad actually told the "messed up" version of this story to me when I was like 5.
Golden parenting moment.
Same lmao
Although he did have her turn back to normal at the end, for a reason I can't remember.
I think it was because Midas prayed? Or something?
Watching your videos every night before bed has become a ritual for me. Thank you for putting in the work you do man. You are awesome and the knowledge you drop is greatly appreciated. Much love wishing y’a happiness 💯
That must suck being turned into gold
You not alive anymore
That's rough buddy
true
@@CC-bm3wb zuko?!?
7:35 I suspected that Hawthorne's retellings were the source of that version. His collection of stories, under the titles of "A Wonder Book" and "Tanglewood Tales" was my introduction to ancient Greek mythology at a very early age. The first one I read, "The Chimera", is still my favorite of them.
Midas turning his daughter into gold was the version I knew.
Same
Same
Welcome back my dude
10:09 That cracks me up! So much for a golden shower.🤣
Wow, the original stories about Midas are the opposite of messed up. Even the bit with the donkey ears is just funny.
The first time I heard a variation of this story and others from this story was from Happily Ever After Fairytale for Every Child from HBO
Omg I LOVED that series!
@@ShadoFoxx I do too and all 3 seasons are here on TH-cam
Man that takes me back so bad!!
I first heard it on an episode of "Wishbone".
That little violin bit in the beginning of each of your videos is the absolute best
OH Snap, boy has a new assistant! Movin on up, to the eastside! Glad to have you back. 💖Elaina
I’ve been watching Jon solo since I was 12 I’m now 17 man time flies I love your videos
What’s up, Solo cups!
Wow i enjoyed this story again, because you told/explained it better & you are a good storyteller. Keep going strong!
“There wouldn’t be six king Georges”
The french: “hold my wig”
A very good point.
Louis the 16th is shaking his head at you 🤣
Already knew this but I like your version of telling things more.
Jon Solo literally looks like the protagonist police officer in the video game L.A. Noire.
Jon Solo welcome back!!!!
HE HAS RETURNED
Very nice!!! Good work!!! In Greece besides the "Midas touch" saying we have a saying about Paktolos that has to do with money and wealth (he has/there is a Paktolos of money)!!!
Midas himself appeared in the Heroes of Olympus series.
He's back! I love Gunther!
And your work Jon.
They even reference him in Fortnite, one of the most important recent characters was named Midas
I finally found a channel that hits my interests to an absolute T. Thank you for existing
The lesson of the story money doesn't pay you happiness, love pay happiness.
You missed one of my favourite Disney ones: The Muppets did a version in "Muppets Classic Theatre".
Him : since Dionysus is a pretty chill guy
Percy Jackson fans: I have seen other wise
Finally found the pjo fans
welp to be far dionysus litt spend the past ceturies with out anything to drink while dealing with demigods with hormones i be like him if i suffered like that
Never heard the story let alone the myth of King Midas so this was a gem for me... Thank you Señor Solo
*side note* sponsor background music is cool
Please do a Messed Up Origin of Old King Cole 🤴 ☝️👑
Please do! Doing genealogy, my mother came across King Cole, the old. I would love a messed up origins of Old King Cole!
Glad to see you back.
İ just realized that Midas could have probably eaten just fine if he had chopsticks
No. Even if didn't become gold being touched by his teeth, it would when it touched his tongue, or - hell no! - the back of his throat
@@debymello4756 you pose a fare point, İ'll counter: the word used for touch describes touch by skin/open wound
Okay, i hadn't seen that PARTICULAR skittles commercial, but that was really well done, i love it.
Midas inspired me to create a story called The Golden Crown
I love the story of King Midas I always found it so interesting.
Idk why Midus didn’t just have people feed him and bring him drinks, I mean he’s a king how does he not have servants to feed and dote on him
I thought of that but I wonder if he would be able to swallow without his food turning to gold 🤔
I always thought it was touch from his hands that turned everything gold. His feet did not turn the ground gold. His clothes that were not touched by his hands were not turned gold either.
"After doing a lot of digging and intense research I can say with complete certainty and confidence that we still don't for sure" - a historian's favorite sentence lol
Great video!! It was really interesting, glad to see you're back🙂
Oh it’s not our favorite, it’s just the most common sentence we utter…usually while crying a little and drinking.
I have a question for any solo fam veterans or jon solo where did jon shot first come from and what does it mean?
In Star Wars there is a scene in which Han Solo shot an enemy underneath a table (killing him) with a hidden gun, however when Disney took over the Star Wars franchise they edited it in order to make it appear as although the enemy shot first and Han was merely defending himself, which upset Star Wars fans, in turn forming the phrase Han Shot First.
@@incompetenttuber5730 thanks
@@incompetenttuber5730 Actually, Lucas altered it for the 1997 special edition.
@@tomkerruish2982 Dam thought I got it right. Thanks though
@@incompetenttuber5730 Well, considering all that Disney has done to the franchise... At any rate, Lucas didn't want Han to be a straight-up cold-blooded killer, but I think he was simply acting in self-defense (his back was literally up against the wall) and outdrew Greedo.
FINALLY!!! Some Midas rep! WOOOOOO I CANT WAIT FOR THE DIONYSUS VIDEOOOO
The Messed Up Origins Of Bugs Bunny.
Missed your videos and saw this in my notifications and knew what I was gonna watch before I sleep
So Midas couldn’t uses a stick to eat but how would the drink become gold if he WAS TOUCHING THE CUP ok imma stop talking
Well Made! Thank You!
He should of just wished for immortality and the ability to fly.
I like that painting in the background (1:22) definitely saw that pic from the movie Goodfellas and Penny is so cute
I remember watching a kids show that featured the horse/donkey ears tale. The difference between that and your version was that the reeds didn’t tell the secret. Instead, they were used to make a pan flute to entertain the king. Whenever they were played, the secret was quietly whispered and the kings crown/turban would move itself up to reveal his secret. Eventually, he revealed to everyone that he had those strange ears and everyone accepted him
i absolutely adore this series !!!! please don’t ever stop!!!
I just wanted to say I loved the video. I am trying to write a short story about Lityerses becoming the King of Phrygia, and in which he suffers from a similar fate to his father. Also, I love the painting in the back from Goodfellas.
So happy you're back Jon
I think there are also myths about Midas getting a job at Hades, together with Radamantis and another king... They seem to have been employed by the God of the Dead as judges to decide what kind of afterlife each soul would have in the Underworld...
I literally was just thinking about this and hoped you'd talk about it. A very happy coincidence!
I remember the tale of the donkey ears as a kid
I'm in love with this channel
The story I heard was, Midas was a king who loved gold. He couldn't get enough of it. So, one day he wished for everything he touched to turn into gold. He soon regretted his wish because, just as in the myth, all his food and drink turned into gold. And also, just as in the myth, he turned his daughter into gold.
King midas and the Golden touch. One of my favorite Greek stories. @JonSolo, please do a messed up origins of Helen of Troy. We want to know the real story. What really happened with the characters involved with the kingdom of Troy and its fall