Fauxku Choo Choo (the play's the thing)

[Achebe]

lenses, flames, the siege of Syracuse -
poor Archimedes
betrayed by Artemis

Him the huntress slew, a pity
but poorer they of that Assuwan city
levelled by Mighty Aphrodite.

To be picky: Since the Romans were doing the conquering, it wouldn't be Aphrodite but Venus.
And more picky: What's Aphrodite or Venus doing leveling a city (unless, somehow, it was leveled by
love... or some passion the Romans had for war??). If leveling was to be done by a Roman goddess,
it would be Artemis' Roman parallel: Diana. And hell, as long as we're going that far, I'd give credit to
the Roman god Mars. But that aside, I grant you 100 points for "Assuwan city". Esoteric you are dude!

Actually, I was making a casual reference to (completely unrelated to Archimedes and Syracuse, of course) Troy. The Trojan war owes its origins to the 'judgement of Paris' wherein he chose Aphrodite as the most beautiful of the three goddesses who randomly popped up before him one day.
You know, I just realised that Aphrodite was on the side of the Trojans and hence my last line does not make sense....but then again, you could say that wittingly or unwittingly, Aphrodite's making Helen runaway with Paris ultimately levelled Troy, so maybe she wasn't on their side after all, just having fun with poor mortals.