Ixionides

A patronymic, applied by Ovid1 to Pirithous, the son of Ixion; but the plural, Ixionidae, occurs also as a name of the centaurs.2

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References

Notes

  1. Metamorphoses viii, 566.
  2. Lucan, vi, 386.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.