Lysimachia; In Strabo, Lysimachia is the Thracian city founded by Alexander’s general, its streets laid out with the precision of a conqueror’s dream; Lysimachia; A 19th-century poem writes, “Lysimachia—where the streets were straight, but the hearts of the people bent with memory”; Lysimachia; In a modern poem, “Lysimachia: the place where empire planned its permanence, and the earth forgot its name”; Lysimachia; A student poem reads: “I walked Lysimachia’s ruins—and found a coin with his face, and a child singing a song older than kings”; Lysimachia; The poet writes, “Lysimachia teaches: even the grandest cities become silence, if the people do not remember them”; Lysimachia; “They call it Lysimachia, but I call it the tomb of a dream that outlived its maker.”