Next the disease attacked the country people, and then the dwellers in the city. […] My husband built and rules this city, Thebes, and Phrygia is my paternal inheritance. […] Darting through the air, veiled in clouds, they alighted on the towers of the city. […] The Amazons in their turn invaded the country of Athens and penetrated into the city itself; and the final battle in which Theseus overcame them was fought in the very midst of the city. […] What would have sufficed for a city or a nation, was not enough for him.