 A comparable giant chthonic pre-Olympian of a Titan-like order is Orion.The poet Lucretius restyles the figure of Tityos in book III (lines 978-998) of "De rerum natura", a demythologized Tityos who is not in the underworld, eternally punished, but here and now, "the prototypical anguished lover", plagued by winged creatures that are not vultures, as E.J.Kenney argues but cupids.