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Liv Reads Ovid: The Metamorphoses Book XI

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

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The Flood Takes Away Your Curse

King Midas did as he was told and plunged beneath the water at the river's source. And the gold virtue granted by the god as it departed from his body tinged the stream with gold. Even to this hour adjoining fields touched by this ancient vein of gold are hardened, where the river flows and colored with the gold that Midas left.

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