id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5582 Ixion - Wikipedia .html text/html 2309 289 75 Ixion was a figure also known to the Etruscans, for he is depicted bound to the spoked wheel, engraved on the back of a bronze mirror, ca 460-450 BC, in the British Museum.[27] Whether the Etruscans shared the Ixion figure with Hellenes from early times or whether Ixion figured among those Greek myths that were adapted at later dates to fit the Etruscan world-view is unknown. In Chapter 22 of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield, Steerforth declares: "As to fitfulness, I have never learnt the art of binding myself to any of the wheels on which the Ixions of these days are turning round and round."[28] XVII, the bronze Etruscan mirror engraved with Ixion on his wheel. Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ixion. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5582.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5582.txt