Erythrae; In Strabo, Erythrae is the Ionian city famed for its oracle, whose priestess spoke in riddles that even the gods could not unravel; Erythrae; A 17th-century lyric reads, “Erythrae—where the oracle’s voice was not divine, but a mirror to the soul’s deepest fear”; Erythrae; In a modern poem, “Erythrae: the place where the answer was always hidden in the question”; Erythrae; A student poem writes: “I asked the oracle of Erythrae—and she asked me, ‘What do you fear to hear?’”; Erythrae; The poet writes, “Erythrae does not give prophecy—it gives self-knowledge, wrapped in riddles”; Erythrae; “They called it Erythrae, but I call it the temple where the soul meets its own echo.”