Chapter 18: Other Myths
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♠ Scholion A at Homer, Iliad 1.268 – Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem 1, pp. 40-41, ed. W. Dindorf and E. Maass. Oxford 1875.
♠ Apollonios of Rhodes, Argonautika 3.61-63
Him will I deliver, though he sail even to Hades to free Ixion below from his brazen chains, as far as strength lies in my limbs. Greek Text
♠ Vergil, Georgics 3.37-39
And accursed Envy there
Shall dread the Furies, and thy ruthless flood,
Cocytus, and Ixion’s twisted snakes,
And that vast wheel and ever-baffling stone. Latin Text
♠ Vergil, Georgics 4.484
And, the wind hushed, Ixion’s wheel stood still. Latin Text
♠ Vergil, Aeneid 6.601
Why name Ixion and Pirithous,
The Lapithae. Latin Text
♠ Lactantius Placidus, Scholion at Statius, Thebais 4.539 – Lactanti Placidi qui dicitur commentaries in Statii Thebaida et commentarium in Achilleida, p. 232, ed. R. Jahnke. P. Papinius Statius 3. Leipzig 1888.
♠ Vatican Mythographer II 106 – Vatican Mythographers – Scriptores rerum mythicarum Latini tres Romae nuper reperti 1, pp. 110-11, ed. G. H. Bode. Celle 1834
♠ ApE 1.20 – Apollodoros, Epitome (summary of the last part of the Bibliotheke)
Ixion fell in love with Hera and attempted to force her; and when Hera reported it, Zeus, wishing to know if the thing were so, made a cloud in the likeness of Hera and laid it beside him; and when Ixion boasted that he had enjoyed the favours of Hera, Zeus bound him to a wheel, on which he is whirled by winds through the air; such is the penalty he pays. And the cloud, impregnated by Ixion, gave birth to Centaurus. Greek Text
♠ Homer, Iliad 14.317-18
nay, not when I was seized with love of the wife of Ixion, who bare Peirithous, the peer of the gods in counsel. Greek Text
♠ Scholion A at Homer, Iliad 14.317 – Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem 2, p. 49, ed. W. Dindorf and E. Maass. Oxford 1875.
♠ Scholion bT at Homer, Iliad 14.317-18 – Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem 4, p. 61, ed. W. Dindorf and E. Maass. Oxford 1875.
♠ Nonnos, Dionysiaca 7.125
♠ Eustathios, Commentary to the Iliad p.101 – Eustathii Commentarii ad Homeri Iliadem, Vol. 1, p. 85. Leipzig 1825.
♦ Athens, Museum of the Athenian Agora Excavations P26228: Attic red-figure cup fragment, Ixion and wheel
Beazley Archive Pottery Database
♦ Rome, Forum Antiquarium 187: Attic red-figure cup fragment, Ixion and wheel
Beazley Archive Pottery Database
♦ London, British Museum E155: Attic red-figure kantharos by the Amphitrite Painter, with Hera, Ares, Ixion, Hermes and Athena with winged wheel
A. Furtwaengler, Adolf and K. Reichhold, Karl, Griechische Vasenmalerei: Auswahl hervorragender Vasenbilder (Serie III, 1932) pl. 163.2
Drawing of Ixion by J.D. Beazley, from Beazley Archive Pottery Database
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