He's woken when a king - King Midas - and his soldiers come riding up. Midas has a special longing to see Dionysus and Silenus agrees to take him to see the god in exchange for the loan of a horse.

The chemical made the clothing look golden, and he hypothesized this is why Midas is known as the king with the golden touch. “It’s just a theory … but an attractive one,” Rose said. He called the ...