Shakespeare's Myths
Apollodorus. The Library, Epitome, I, 20.
Apollonius of Rhodes. Argonautica, III, 62.
Claudian. Rape of Proserpine, II, 326-42.
Diodorus Siculus. The Library of History, IV, 63, 69; VII, 9, 4.
Euripides. The Phenician Maidens, 1181-86.
Greek Anthology, III, 12; XI, 143.
Homer. Iliad, XIV, 315.
Horace. Odes, III, xi, 20.
Hyginus. Fables, XIV, 6; XXXIII; XXXIV; LXII; LXXIX; CCLVII.
Lucian. Dialogues of the Gods, IX: “Hera and Zeus”.
Nonnos of Pannopolis. Dionysiacs, XVI, 240-41; XXXV, 293-97.
Ovid. Ibis, 176.
Ovid. Metamorphoses, IV, 461; VIII, 403, VIII, 613; IX, 124; X, 42; XII, 210, XII, 504.
Pindar. Pythian Odes, II, 21-48.
Plutarch. Erotikos (Dialogue on Love), 2.17, 761E.
Plutarch. Parallel Lives, “Agis”, 1.
Seneca. Agamemnon, 12-27.
Seneca. Hercules Furens, 750.
Seneca. Hercules Oetaeus, 485-99; 938-63; 1003-14; 1061-89.
Seneca. Medea, 740-49.
Seneca. Phaedra, 1229-43.
Seneca. Thyestes, 1-22.
Sophocles. Philoctetes, 674-79.
Statius. Thebaid, II, 451-80 ; IV, 536-48 ; VIII, 42-64.
Strabo. Geography, VII, fragments 14 and 15a; IX, v, 19.
Tibullus. Elegies, I, iii, 73-74.
Virgil. Æneid, VI, 601.
Virgil. Georgics, III, 37-39; IV, 484.
How to cite
Gaelle Ginestet. “Ixion.” 2009. In A Dictionary of Shakespeare’s Classical Mythology (2009-), ed. Yves Peyré. http://www.shakmyth.org/myth/131/ixion
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