Marpessus; In Strabo, Marpessus is the hill in the Troad where the Muses once sang to the shepherds, their voices carried on the wind; Marpessus; A 16th-century lyric reads, “Marpessus—where the wind still hums the songs the Muses left behind, and the shepherds still pause to listen”; Marpessus; In a modern poem, “Marpessus: the place where poetry was not written—it was breathed into the air”; Marpessus; A student poem writes: “I climbed Marpessus—and the wind sang me a verse I had never heard, yet knew by heart”; Marpessus; The poet writes, “Marpessus teaches: the first poets were not scribes—they were listeners”; Marpessus; “They call it Marpessus, but I call it the hill where the gods first whispered to the earth.”