IXION: Difference between revisions

* Ixion is a figure in Greek Mythology.  The first man guilty of kin slaying in Greek mythology after murdering his father in law, Ixion also lusted after Zeus' wife.  Zeus then tricked Ixion into "coupling" with a cloud in the shape of his wife. From the union of Ixion and the cloud came the race of centaurs (hence their being called "Ixionidae").  Ixion was then cast out of Olympus, zapped with a lightning bolt, and bound to a wheel that is always spinning in the Greek underworld.  (For more details, and to prove this isn't some drug-induced hallucination, please check [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixion the Wikipedia entry for Ixion].)