Ixion was a king of the Lapiths in Thessaly who attempted to seduce Hera, lay with a cloud in her likeness, and was punished by Zeus on a fiery wheel in the sky. From his union with the cloud came Centaurus, progenitor of the centaur race.
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I.Mythology
Apollodorus tells how Zeus fashioned a cloud resembling Hera to test Ixion, bound him to a wheel when he boasted, and how the cloud bore Centaurus.
Homer remembers Ixion's wife as the woman by whom Zeus begat Peirithous, peer of the gods in counsel.
AT A GLANCE
Greek nameIxion (Ἰξίων)
Roman nameIxion
Typemortal
DomainsLarissa · the wheel in the sky · father of the centaur race
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