Ixion in Heaven (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Benjamin Disraeli
- First Published: 1832
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—mythological
- Time of Work: Undefined, in a classical Heaven
- Setting: Mount Olympus
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Mythology or myths, Punishment, Wheels
- Locales: Mount Olympus (mythic)
The Plot
Part 1 of Ixion in Heaven, published in Edward Bulwer Lytton’s New Monthly Magazine in 1832, so delighted Benjamin Disraeli’s contemporaries that a second part was brought out the following year. This political satire takes the form of a contemporary revision of the myth of Ixion found in Greek poet Pindar’s Pythian Odes and in Apollonius Rhodius. It includes, from myth, the elements of Ixion’s murder of kin, the temptation of Juno, Juno’s escape through a fog, and Jove’s binding of Ixion to a wheel and casting him out of heaven. Other...
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