Editing Gordias (section)

== Gordias (Herodotus) ==
According to Herodotus, another member of the Phrygian royal line named Gordias was a contemporary of [[Croesus]] of [[Lydia]]. His son [[Adrastus (son of Gordias)|Adrastus]] accidentally killed his own brother and fled to Lydia where Croesus gave him asylum. Phrygia was a Lydian subject at this time. This Gordias was the son of another Midas. Herodotus does not mention if this Gordias was still alive when Adrastus fled, or if this Gordias or his father Midas ever reigned as (vassal) kings.<ref>Herodotus I.35.</ref> This Gordias and Midas pair are otherwise unknown.

Some historians believe Herodotus used the name Gordias for the father of another Midas still, who ruled Phrygia in the late 8th century BC.<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica'', notes to Penguin edition of Herodotus.</ref> Herodotus wrote that a {{qi|Midas, son of Gordias}} donated a throne to the [[Oracle of Delphi]]. This Midas, of the late 8th century BC, had a Greek wife and strong ties to the Greeks, which suggests it was he who made the offering; but Herodotus also says [[Gyges of Lydia]], a contemporary of this Midas, was {{qi|the first foreigner since Midas}} to make an offering at Delphi, which suggests Herodotus believed the throne was donated by the more ancient Midas.