In Greek mythology, Midas (in Greek, Μιδας, often referred as king Midas) is popularly remembered for his ability to turn everything he touched into gold: the "Midas touch". Midas was kingThe reign-names Midas and Gordias alternate in historic Phrygia: Herodotus (i.14) tells an anecdote of Adrastus "the son of Gordias, son of Midas" at the court of Croesus. of Pessinus, a city of Phrygia, who as a child was adopted by the king Gordias and Cybele, goddess whose consort he was, and who by some accounts was the goddess-mother of Midas himself."King Midas, a Phrygian, son of Cybele" (Hyginus, Fabulae 274). Some accounts place the youth of Midas in Macedonian Bromium (Graves 1960:83.a).