Ixion

Tries to rape Hera, has sex with a cloud in her likeness, and is punished on a wheel in the sky.

Genealogy

Centaurus, Perithous

Place

Unknown

Events
  1. Ixion tries to rape Hera
  2. Zeus plants a cloud shaped like Hera next to Ixion
  3. Ixion has sex with the cloud shaped like Hera
  4. Ixion brags to Zeus that he has had sex with Hera
  5. Zeus binds Ixion to a wheel that spins through the heavens
Citations
  1. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 8.2
  2. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 1.20
  3. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 14, Section 312
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