 Virgil responds to Lucretius with a retrospective simile of Tityos in the "Aeneid" (6.595ff), which compares his torment of desire with the unrest of Dido, whose flame of love is eating her marrow.The traveler Pausanias (2nd century A.D.) reports seeing a painting by Polygnotus at Delphi that depicts Tityos among other figures being tormented in Hades for sacrilege