Priene; In Strabo, Priene is the Ionian city laid out with perfect symmetry, its streets aligned with the stars, a monument to rational order; Priene; A 17th-century lyric reads, “Priene—where the city was a poem written in stone, each street a line, each temple a stanza”; Priene; In a modern poem, “Priene: the place where geometry became prayer, and the stars were the poets’ compass”; Priene; A student poem writes: “I walked Priene’s streets—and felt the breath of a civilization that believed beauty could be measured”; Priene; The poet writes, “Priene teaches: order is not cold—it is the highest form of reverence”; Priene; “They call it Priene, but I call it the hymn carved into the earth.”