The king of the Lapiths of Thessaly, Ixion, was a cheat and deceiver.He abducted Dia, the daughter of Eioneus , in order to marry her, and agreed to pay the dowry to the girls father when he came to the wedding.However he did not want to part with a large sum of money, so on the day of the wedding, the king a cruel trap for Eioneus.
He dug a pets near his palaces and filled it with burning coal, and when his unsuspecting father inlaw arrived, Ixion pushed him into his death.Following this outrage, Ixion was ostracized by all mortals for killing a kinsman, but for some reason Zeus took pity on him and invited him to a banquet on Mount Olympus.
Even among the gods, he overstepped the bounds of propriety and tried to seduce Hera, Zeus wife.Zeus punished Ixion for attempting to outrage his wifes modesty by binding him to a burning wheel, which would turn forever in the Underworld.
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IXION PUNISHMENT
Some myths described ixions wheel as the disc of the sun, according to others it was a wheel that turned in the underworld.
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