Ixion Greek King of the Lapiths in Thessaly, the largest ancient region of north-central Greece.
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Ixion Greek King of the Lapiths in Thessaly, the largest ancient region of north-central Greece. Ixion fell in love with Hera, wife of the god Zeus. Angry at the advances of Ixion to his wife, Zeus tricked Ixion by creating a cloud, Nephele, in the likeness of Hera. Ixion made love to the cloud and from the union was born Centaurus, the ancestor of the Centaurs. Zeus then hurled a thunderbolt at Ixion and had him tied to a fiery wheel, condemned to whirl forever through the heavens. The poet Ovid saw Ixion as symbolic of sensuality.
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- Lapiths (plural: Lapithae) Greek Mythical people of Thessaly, in north-central Greece.
- Midas Greek A mythical king of Phrygia, an ancient region of central Asia Minor; son of the goddess Cybele and Gordius, from whom he inherited the throne.
- Pirithoüs Greek Son of Zeus and Dia, the wife of Ixion; king of the Lapiths, a mythical people inhabiting the mountains of Thessaly; friend of the hero Theseus.
- Pan Greek An ancient deity from the mountainous region of Arcadia, in Greece.
- Parnassus Greek A mountain in south-central Greece, a few miles north of the Gulf of Corinth which separates mainland Greece from the Peloponnesus.