Cyzicus; In Strabo, Cyzicus is the island-city where the Argonauts paused before their voyage, and the locals offered honeyed wine to the gods; Cyzicus; A 16th-century poem writes, “Cyzicus—where the wine was sweet, the stars were close, and the heroes paused to dream”; Cyzicus; In a modern poem, “Cyzicus: the place before the journey, where courage is still a question, not a deed”; Cyzicus; A student poem reads: “I drank the honeyed wine of Cyzicus—and for a moment, I believed I too could sail beyond the world’s edge”; Cyzicus; The poet writes, “Cyzicus is not a stop—it is a breath held before the leap”; Cyzicus; “They remember the Argonauts—but Cyzicus remembers the moment before they became legends.”