![]() Zeus took pity on him and invited him to Olympus for rehabilitation, but once there, Ixion conceived an overriding passion for Zeus’ wife, Hera. The other local kings in Thessaly were appalled by Ixion’s act against his own kin, and drove him from his kingdom to wander in the wilderness, where he went mad. Outraged, Ixion pretended to accept this, and invited his father-in-law to a sumptuous banquet, but once arrived, Ixion threw him into a bed of burning coals and wood, killing him. When Ixion married, he refused to pay his father-in-law the agreed-upon bride price, so the latter took matters into his own hands and stole some of Ixion’s horses in compensation. His story is a complicated one, involving many crimes and infractions of rules, especially of the social contract between hosts and guests. Ixion was a king of ancient Greece, a son of the god Ares, and the first murderer in Greek myth.
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