Cavafy: 166 poems

✍ Scribed by Cavafy, Constantine;Boegehold, Alan Lindley

• Publisher: Axios Press
• Year: 2008;2009
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Cavafy's Values; Poems; Walls; An Old Man; Achilles' Horses; Prayer; Sarpedon's Funeral; Candles; The First Step; Old Men's Souls; Che Fece ... il Gran Rifiuto; Interruption; Windows; Thermopylae; Faithlessness; Waiting for the Barbarians; Voices; Desires; The Trojans; King Demetrios; Dionysos' Band; Monotony; Footsteps; That's He; The City; The Satrapy; The Ides of March; Finalities; Sculptor of Tyana; The God Leaves Anthony; Ionic; The Glory of the Ptolemies; Ithaca; The Dangers; Philhellene; Herodes Atticus; Alexandrian Kings; Come Back.;Constantine Cavafy is considered the greatest of modern Greek poets. His poems treat historical, philosophical, and erotic themes, sometimes altogether, and share a unique voice. This volume includes a fresh translation by noted classical scholar Alan Boegehold, a translation that captures the style as well as the meaning of the Greek, and a foreword discussing Cavafy's distinctive values.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Cavafy's Values
Poems
Walls
An Old Man
Achilles' Horses
Prayer
Sarpedon's Funeral
Candles
The First Step
Old Men's Souls
Che Fece ... il Gran Rifiuto
Interruption
Windows
Thermopylae
Faithlessness
Waiting for the Barbarians
Voices
Desires
The Trojans
King Demetrios
Dionysos' Band
Monotony
Footsteps
That's He
The City
The Satrapy
The Ides of March
Finalities
Sculptor of Tyana
The God Leaves Anthony
Ionic
The Glory of the Ptolemies
Ithaca
The Dangers
Philhellene
Herodes Atticus
Alexandrian Kings
Come Back. At ChurchVery Rarely
To the Extent that You Can
The Shop's
I Went
The Tomb of the Grammarian Lysias
Eurion's Grave
Chandelier
Long Ago
But Wise Men, Approaching Events
Theodotos
At the Café Door
He Swears
One Night
Morning Sea
Painted
Orophernes
The Battle of Magnesia
Manuel Komnenos
The Seleucid's Displeasure
When They Stir
On the Street
Before the Statue of Endymion
In Osroene's City
Passage
For Ammones Who Died, Age 29, in 610
A God of Theirs
At Evening
To Pleasure
Grey
Iasis' Grave
In the Month of Athyr
I've Looked So Hard
Ignatius' Tomb
Days of 1903. The Tobacconist's WindowCaesarion
Body Remember
Lanes' Grave
Recognition
Nero's Limit
Ambassadors from Alexandria
Aristoboulos
In Port
Aimilianos Monai, Alexandrian, 628-655 a.d.
From Nine O'Clock
By the House
Next Table
Afternoon Sun
To Stay
Of the Jews
Imenos
On Board
Demetrios Soter
If He Did Die
Young Men of Sidon, 400 a.d.
So They Come
Darius
Anna Komnena
Byzantine Official in Exile, Poetaster
Their Origin
The Benevolence of Alexander Vala
Melancholy of Jason Kleander, Poet in Commagene, 595 a.d.
Demaratos
I Brought to Art. From the School of the Famous PhilosopherThe Silversmith
Who Fought for the Achaean League
To Antiochos Epiphanes
In an Old Book
In Despair
Julian Observing Too Little Esteem
Epitaph of Antiochos, King of Commagene
Theater of Sidon (400 a.d.)
Julian in Nikomedia
Before Time Changes Them
He Came to Read
31 b.c. in Alexandria
John Kantakouzinos Prevails
Temethos, Antiochene, 400 a.d.
Of Colored Glass
The Twenty-fifth Year of his Life
On the Italian Shore
In a Boring Little Town
Apollonius Tyaneus in Rhodes
Kleitos Ill
In a Town of Asia Minor
Priest at the Serapeion. In the TavernsA Great Train of Priests and Laity
Sophist out of Syria
Julian and the Men of Antioch
Anna Dalassini
Days of 1896
Two Young Men, 23 to 24 Years Old
Greek from Old
Days of 1901
You Do Not Comprehend
A Young Man, for His Art-24 Years Old
In Sparta
Picture of a 23 Year Old Young Man Done by a Friend of the Same Age, Amateur
In a Large Greek Colony, 200 b.c.
A Duke from Western Libya
Kimon, Son of Learchos, 22 Years Old, Student of Greek Literature (in Kyrene)
On the Way to Sinope
Days of 1909, '10, and '11
Myres: Alexandria. 340 a.d.

✦ Subjects

Cavafy, Constantine;;Translations;Cavafy, Constantine, -- 1863-1933 -- Translations into English;Cavafy, Constantine, -- 1863-1933