King Midas chose the satyr. Apollo became angry and turned Midas's ears into those of a donkey as a sign of foolishness.
Why was it hard for the barber to keep the secret? He was the only one who knew and he was desperate to share his secret knowledge.
In one of the great parables of hubris, the satyr Marsyas challenged the god Apollo to a musical competition. The god triumphed and then punished his challenger by skinning him alive. Here, Permoser condensed the tragic climax of the story into an emotive portrayal of Marsyas.
Watching Apollo scatter golden rays of sunshine at sunrise provoked Midas to complain that the god was wasting gold that only kings should have. Hearing his complaints, Apollo appeared to Midas in a dream and granted him his wish to have everything he touched turn to gold.
One time when Apollo was away performing his godly duties, Coronis fell in love with Ischys, son of Elatus. Going against her father's warnings, she slept with him in secret. Apollo, however, discovered this affair through his prophetic powers. Angered, he sent his twin sister, Artemis, to kill Coronis.
In Greek mythology, Hyacinthus was a Spartan prince of remarkable beauty and a lover of the sun god Apollo.
Apollo the God of Light, the eternally beautiful youth, was also know for his affairs with both men and women.
King Midas chose the satyr. Apollo became angry and turned Midas's ears into those of a donkey as a sign of foolishness. Moral of the story: Never choose a satyr over a powerful god.
Midas tries to hide them under a turban but has to share his secret with his barber. Burdened by his secret, the barber whispers it into the ground only to have the reeds reveal, when the winds blow through them, that 'Midas has donkey's ears, the king has the ears of an ass. '
A Gift Turns into a Curse
This included his daughter Marigold. Marigold did not like that the flowers in the rose garden had lost their fragrance as they were now gold. King Midas went to console his daughter by giving her a hug. Unintentionally, King Midas turned his daughter to gold and was unable to turn her back.
A hecatomb of bulls and goats is offered to Apollo in an enacted sacrifice in Iliad I, which is uneaten (Iliad I 315), and another hecatomb for Apollo is consumed at a feast (Iliad I 468).
Apollo angered his father Zeus and ended up being sent to Earth and is in the body of a 16 year-old boy named Lester Papadopolous. Zeus punishes Apollo for the role that he played in the battle between the gods in Gaea. Apollo is of course upset about this and is wondering how soon he can get back to god status.
According to Aeschylus's tragedy Agamemnon, Cassandra was loved by the god Apollo, who promised her the power of prophecy if she would comply with his desires. Cassandra accepted the proposal, received the gift, and then refused the god her favours.
The atonement
He told Midas to go to river Pactolus and wash his hands. Midas did so: he ran to the river and was astonished to see gold flowing from his hands. The ancient Greeks said they had found gold on the banks of the river Pactolus. When he turned home, everything Midas had touched had become normal again.
Midas was a mythical king of Phrygia in Asia Minor who was famous for his extraordinary ability to change anything he touched into gold. This gift was given to him by Dionysos in thanks for his hospitality to the wise satyr Silenus.
King Midas' face turned pale and his heart sank with unbearable pain and grief. He was horrified upon seeing his daughter turn into a golden statue. He cried in anguish and regretted his wish for the golden touch.
For his kind treatment of Silenus Midas was rewarded by Dionysus with a wish. The king wished that all he touched might turn to gold, but when his food became gold and he nearly starved to death as a result, he realized his error.
As with the other major divinities, Apollo had many children; perhaps the most famous are Orpheus (who inherited his father's musical skills and became a virtuoso with the lyre or kithara), Asclepius (to whom he gave his knowledge of healing and medicine) and, according to the 5th-century BCE tragedian Euripides, the ...
Archaeologically, Midas died a natural death when he was about 60 years-old and was buried in a royal tomb. Aristotle stated that Midas starved to death as he could not eat anything because every food he touched. Strabo suggested he committed suicide by drinking a bull's blood.
Apollo taught her to play the lyre and to sing. Zeus gave her a foolish, mischievous and idle nature and last but not least, Hera gave her the wiliest gift, curiosity.
An exceptionally long period of time. The phrase likely originated as rhyming slang, where "ears" rhymes with "years" and alludes to the length of a donkey's ears.
Noun. donkey's ears pl (plural only) (Britain, idiomatic) A long time, years and years.
KORONIS (Coronis) A princess of Oikhalia in Thessalia (northern Greece) and lover of Apollon. When the god discovered her infidelity with a mortal man, his sister Artemis struck her down.
It is said that Daphne was the first love of Apollo but unfortunately the girl never responded his love. It was not usual or possible for a nymph or a mortal woman in the Greek mythology to resist to the love of a god, but Daphne did so and in fact, she lost her life trying to escape this love.
Apollo's Women
Marpessa: daughter of Euenos. Their offspring was Kleopatra, wife of Meleager, although her father may have been Idas. Chione: daughter of Daedalion. Their son was Philammon, sometimes said to be the son of Philonis.