Dia accuses Ixion of murder and he flees to a neighbouring kingdom where his account of events is also disbelieved, so Jupiter takes him to heaven.

Ixion falls asleep in a field to be woken by Cupid to whom he confides his interest in Juno, who then appears on the scene.

After the meal Mercury and Ganymede tell Jupiter about Ixion's interest in Juno and all the gods head off in search of him.

[2] When the novel was republished in 1853, Disraeli wrote that Jupiter represented George IV and Apollo Lord Byron.

[4] Disraeli’s father Isaac, also a novelist, considered Ixion in Heaven and its follow-up The Infernal Marriage which was published the following year as his son’s most original contribution to literature.