Ixion
Mortal man
In Greek mythology, Ixion ( ik-SY-ən; Ancient Greek: Ἰξίων, romanized: Ixíōn) was king of the Lapiths, the most ancient tribe of Thessaly. Ixion desired Hera, the queen of the gods and wife of Zeus, and his arrogant attempt to have sex with her led to his eternal punishment in Tartarus.
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Mentions in the Iliad
A. T. Murray, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1924 · Homer, Iliad with an English Translation · CC BY-SA 3.0 US
“for never yet did desire for goddess or mortal woman so shed itself about me and overmaster the heart within my breast—nay, not when I was seized with love of the wife of Ixion, who bare Peirithous, the peer of the gods in counsel; nor of Danaë of the fair ankles, daughter of Acrisius,”
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Супружество названо в самой карточке персонажа и подтверждено внешним источником; в извлечении из русского текста отдельной связи не было. Свидетельство источника: «Iliad 14.317–318: Zeus recalls being in love with Ixion's wife, who bore Peirithous. Her personal name is not given in the Iliad passage.»
Homer, Iliad 14, trans. A. T. Murray (Theoi Classical Texts Library) · Homer, Iliad 14, trans. A. T. Murray (Theoi Classical Texts Library) ↗See all 1
In art
Giovan Battista Langetti. The Torture of Ixion. Museo de Arte de Ponce. Public domain. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139975903
Cornelis van Haarlem. The Fall of Ixion. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Public domain. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19926181
Peter Paul Rubens. Ixion, king of the Lapiths, deceived by Juno, who he wished to seduce. Department of Paintings of the Louvre. Public domain. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15934807
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Sources and verification
The character is matched to the catalogue.
- Wikipedia · Ixion · CC BY-SA 4.0
Excerpt; remaining sentences omitted.
Reference material remains distinct from the poem’s assertions. Characters who share a name retain separate pages.