Ixion Definition

ĭk-sīən, ĭksē-ŏn
noun
A Thessalian king who is bound to a revolving wheel in Tartarus because he sought the love of Hera.
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pronoun

(Greek mythology) King of Lapiths, who was punished by Zeus for trying to seduce Hera by being bound to winged fiery wheel that was always spinning.

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A Kuiper belt object (KBO), 28978 Ixion (provisional designation 2001 KX76)
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Origin of Ixion

  • From Latin Ixīōn, from Ancient Greek Ἰξίων (Iksiōn).

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Ixion Sentence Examples

  • The best-known legends with which they are connected are those of Ixion (q.v.) and the battle with the Centaurs (q.v.).

  • As a punishment, Ixion was seized with madness, until Zeus purified him of his crime and admitted him as a guest to Olympus.

  • Ixion abused his pardon by trying to seduce Hera; but the goddess substituted for herself a cloud, by which he became the father of the Centaurs.

  • Ixion is generally taken to represent the eternally moving sun.

  • But for Ixion in Heaven, The Infernal Marriage, and Popanilla, Disraeli could not be placed among the greater writers of his kind; yet none of his imaginative books have been so little read as these.

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Words Starting With

IIXIXI

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Words Starting With I and Ending With N

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