Midas

About the show

King Midas asks Bacchus for the power to turn everything he touches to gold, then suffers when his clothes, food, wine, and beard all transform. Later, after judging a contest between Apollo and Pan in Pan’s favour, Midas receives ass’s ears. His daughter Sophronia seeks help at Delphi, and Midas’s barber Motto is drawn into a comic subplot about the golden beard and the secret ears.