The stories featured in Greak-Out are original adaptations of classic Greak myths.

This week's story features someone being pushed into a fire, flirting with clouds,

DIY weather, a wedding night murder, violations of hospitality, and double standards.

There are a lot of heroic figures in Greak mythology, and we've talked about many of them on

this podcast. There's Heracles and Achilles and Odysseus, and those guys are pretty cool.

They're strong, smart, charismatic, but there's also a whole other group of people in Greak

mythology that we hear a lot about. The villains. And today's episode is all about some of the

baddest humans in Greak mythology. Yep. It's time once again to highlight some of the members

of the ancient Greece's most wanted crew. We talked about other villains. On the first,

ancient Greece's most wanted episode, back in season two. Yeah, and now we have a whole new batch

of bad guys to talk about. First up, Ixion, the mortal king of the Lapis. Ixion was the

son of the god Aries and the nymph, Paramela. He ruled over the Lapis, a tribe of people who lived

in ancient Thessaly. Exactly. And like his father, Aries, Ixion was known to have a bit of a temper.

If things didn't go his way, he would react without thinking. He was a bit of a hothead, if we're

being honest. And there are many examples of Ixion losing his cool. But the story we're going to

tell today starts when he married his wife, Dia, the daughter of a man named Dionius. Now,

at this point in time, it was customary for a groom to pay for a bride in the form of money,

livestock or property. This is called a dowry and can happen when a man pays a woman so he can

marry her or a woman pays a man so she can marry him. Right. And in ancient Greece, it was the

woman's family who had to pay up. Even though this kind of makes women into a product to buy and

sell and encourages people to think of women as property, it was apparently a very common practice

throughout history. This still exists in some cultures today. While it is not legally recognized

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