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Ixion was one of the four legendary figures (Ixion, Sisyphus Tantalus, Tytius) who are customarily linked in Greek mythology and in art, because they all underwent punishment in Hades. Ixion, a king of Thessaly, murdered his father-in-law. He also attempted to seduce the goddess Juno, but her husband Jupiter foiled him by making an image in her likeness from the clouds and the drunk Ixion embraced this instead. His punishment was to be bound to a fiery wheel which turned forever.
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