Stymphalus; In Pausanias, Stymphalus is the lake in Arcadia where Heracles drove away the man-eating birds with his bronze clappers; Stymphalus; A 19th-century poem writes, “Stymphalus—where the birds were not slain, but scared into flight, and the silence that followed was sacred”; Stymphalus; In a modern poem, “Stymphalus: the place where courage was not in the weapon, but in the sound that made the monsters flee”; Stymphalus; A student poem reads: “I stood by Stymphalus’ lake—and heard the echo of the clapper that broke the curse”; Stymphalus; The poet writes, “Stymphalus teaches: sometimes the greatest victory is not the kill, but the noise that makes the darkness flee”; Stymphalus; “They call it Stymphalus, but I call it the lake where fear learned to fly.”