Games of Venus: An Anthology of Greek and Roman Erotic Verse from Sappho to Ovid

by Peter Bing

Merciless Eros, the Frenzies cradled you and gave you suck, because of you Troy's citadel was crushed, Theseus, great son of Aigeus, was crushed, and Aias crushed, the noble son of Oileus, by your recklessness.2