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Perna Studios is very excited to announce our third trading card set entitled Classic Mythology. This set will focus on 5 timeless Classic Mythologies that we have all come to love and enjoy during our lifetime. The mythologies spotlighted in this set are Greek, Norse, Egyptian, Celtic and Native American. We have an impressive list of artists involved on this set working on both base/promo cards and sketch cards. Set scheduled to be released in early Spring 2014.
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This awesome sketch art card of Midas from Greek Mythology is drawn by the very talented artist Meghan Hetrick for our Classic Mythology II trading card set.
MIDAS was a wealthy king of Phrygia in Asia Minor. When Seilenos, an elderly companion of the god Dionysos, became separated from his master's company, Midas captured him with the lure of wine. He treated the old satyr hospitably and upon returning him to the god was rewarded with a wish. He prayed for a golden touch, a boon which quickly proved a curse when the king discovered his food likewise transformed. Petitioning the god again, he was instructed to bathe in the river Paktolos which rid him of the power, and imbued the river's sands with gold.
Later the king was called upon to attend a musical contest between the gods Apollo and Pan (or else the satyr Marsyas). The foolish king declared his preference for the music of the pipe and was inflicted with a pair of asses' ears by the angry lyre-god. Ashamed of this deformity, Midas hid the ears beneath the flaps of a Phrygian cap, the traditional head-gear of the local nobility.
