The New Student's Reference Work/Ixion

Ixion (iks-ī′-on), according to Greek story, a Thessalian prince, king of the Lapithæ.  When the father of his bride demanded the usual bridal gifts, Ixion invited him to a banquet and treacherously had him thrown into a fiery pit.  No one would have anything to do with the murderer or purify him from his guilt; so Zeus took him up into heaven to be purified.  But when Ixion dared to make love to the goddess Hera, he was bound hand and foot to a fiery wheel, which rolled forever in the sky.