Shakespeare's Myths

ApollodorusThe Library, Epitome, I, 20.

Apollonius of RhodesArgonautica, III, 62.

ClaudianRape of Proserpine, II, 326-42.

Diodorus SiculusThe Library of History, IV, 63, 69; VII, 9, 4.

EuripidesThe Phenician Maidens, 1181-86.

Greek Anthology, III, 12; XI, 143.

HomerIliad, XIV, 315.

HoraceOdes, III, xi, 20.

HyginusFables, XIV, 6; XXXIII; XXXIV; LXII; LXXIX; CCLVII.

LucianDialogues of the Gods, IX: “Hera and Zeus”.

Nonnos of PannopolisDionysiacs, XVI, 240-41; XXXV, 293-97.

OvidIbis, 176.

Ovid.  Metamorphoses, IV, 461; VIII, 403, VIII, 613; IX, 124; X, 42; XII, 210, XII, 504.

PindarPythian Odes, II, 21-48.

PlutarchErotikos (Dialogue on Love), 2.17, 761E.

PlutarchParallel Lives, “Agis”, 1.

SenecaAgamemnon, 12-27.

SenecaHercules Furens, 750.

SenecaHercules Oetaeus, 485-99; 938-63; 1003-14; 1061-89.

SenecaMedea, 740-49.

SenecaPhaedra, 1229-43.

SenecaThyestes, 1-22.

SophoclesPhiloctetes, 674-79.

StatiusThebaid, II, 451-80 ; IV, 536-48 ; VIII, 42-64.

StraboGeography, VII, fragments 14 and 15a; IX, v, 19.

TibullusElegies, I, iii, 73-74.

VirgilÆneid, VI, 601.

VirgilGeorgics, 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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