The Golden Age of King Midas : : Exhibition Catalogue / / ed. by C. Brian Rose, Gareth Darbyshire.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Amrhein, Anastasia,; Crawford Waters, Sophie,; Darbyshire, Gareth,; Del Bono, Elisa,; Hickman, Jane,; Holzman, Sam,; Kim, Patricia,; Liebhart, Richard,; Morgan, Kathryn R.,; Rose, C. Brian,; Simpson, Elizabeth,; Stephens, Lucas,; Tanaka, Kurtis,
• HerausgeberIn: Darbyshire, Gareth,; Rose, C. Brian,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) :; color illus.

Gordion is frequently remembered as the location of an intricate knot ultimately cut by Alexander, but in antiquity it served as the center of the Phrygian kingdom that ruled much of Asia Minor during the early millennium B.C.E. The site lies approximately seventy kilometers southeast of Ankara in c...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Director's Foreword
• Curator's Message
• Exhibition Partnership
• Acknowledgements
• Essays on King Midas and Gordion
• Gordion and the Penn Museum
• The Interaction of Empires
• Tumulus MM: Fit for a King
• The Legacy of Phrygian Culture
• Architectural Conservation at Gordion
• The Myth of Midas' Golden Touch
• Gold the First Day
• The Role of Science in Gordion's Archaeology
• King Midas' Furniture
• The Next Decade at Gordion
• Exhibition Catalogue of Artifacts
• The Midas Mound
• Life in Midas' Kingdom
• Midas and Neighboring Kingdoms
• Gordion After Midas
• Image Credits