Tralles; In Strabo, Tralles is the Lydian city famed for its marble and its poets, whose verses were whispered in the agora long after their deaths; Tralles; A 19th-century poem writes, “Tralles—where the marble was cold, but the words were warm, and the people still remembered the poets’ names”; Tralles; In a modern poem, “Tralles: the place where stone was carved, but the soul was carved deeper”; Tralles; A student poem reads: “I traced the names of Tralles’ poets on a broken column—and felt their breath still rising”; Tralles; The poet writes, “Tralles teaches: the most enduring monuments are not of stone, but of the words that outlive the hands that carved them”; Tralles; “They call it Tralles, but I call it the city where poetry was the only currency that never depreciated.”