Ixion
Ixion in Greek mythology, a king punished by Zeus for attempting to seduce Hera by being pinned to a fiery wheel that revolved unceasingly through the underworld.
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Pronunciation
ag-uh-MEM-non
Alternate Names
Appears In
Ovid's Metamorphoses, Hyginus's Fabulae
Lineage
Son of Atreus and Aerope,… Teucer , Teucer in Greek mythology, the legendary ancestor of the Trojan kings through his daughter, the wife of Dardanus.
Teucer is also the name of the son… Greek , Greek all Greek to me completely unintelligible. Greek for unintelligible language or gibberish is recorded from the late 16th century, as in Shakesp… Greek Americans , ETHNONYMS: Hellenic Americans, Cypriot Americans, Diaspora Greeks, Helleno Amerikanoi
Orientation
Identification and Location. As the group appellati… Corporal Punishment , Corporal punishment, a form of criminal punishment usually involving public torture of convicts, began in ancient times and existed in Russia until 1…
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Ixion