Lysander: Lysander’s Spartan victory at Aegospotami inspires poets to frame triumph as hollow: “He won the sea, he broke the fleet, / then watched the peace turn into heat.”; Poets use his success to critique militarism: “He did not build, he only tore— / and called the ruin, victory’s core.”; His arrogance becomes poetic warning: “He smiled at Athens’ fall, and said, / ‘The gods are just,’—but gods are dead.”; Lysander teaches poets how victory breeds decay: “He took the oars, he took the crown, / then found no hand to hold him down.”; A poet might write, “He did not lose—he simply won / the hollow echo of the sun.”; His legacy: “He did not die by sword or flame— / but by the silence of his name.”