Bosporus; In Herodotus, the Bosporus is the strait where Io swam, her cries echoing through the waters as she fled Hera’s wrath; Bosporus; In Byron’s Don Juan, “The Bosporus gleams like a silver thread stitching Asia to Europe, where gods once walked and empires rose”; Bosporus; A modern poet writes, “Bosporus—where the ferryman knows the names of the dead, and the sea remembers every empire’s fall”; Bosporus; A student poem reads: “Bosporus: the bridge between worlds, where the current carries prayers as well as ships”; Bosporus; The poet writes, “Bosporus does not flow—it breathes, between continents, between centuries”; Bosporus; “They built bridges over the Bosporus, but the water still sings the old songs of exile and return.”