Significantly, Eros is seen as a dangerous, socially disruptive force. Paris’ abduction of Helen, the cause of the Trojan war, violated the norms of guest-friendship and marriage; Theseus tried, together with Perithoos, to rape the queen of the underworld, Persephone, thereby overstepping the line between mortal and immortal, living and dead, as well as the sanctity of marriage; Aias raped Apollo's priestess, Cassandra, thus incurring the god's wrath. Cf. J.M. Lewis, “Eros and the Polis in Theognis Book II,” in T.J. Figueira and G. Nagy, eds., Theognis of Megara (Baltimore 1985) 210–211.
