Titlebook: Cavafy‘s Hellenistic Antiquities; History, Archaeology Takis Kayalis Book 2024 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclu

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Introduction,eenth- and early twentieth-century literary, cultural, political and sexualized receptions of antiquity. My inquiry pays particular attention to a set of his poems which stage readings of Hellenistic and late ancient objects and texts and discusses them extensively, drawing on material from the rece

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Orophernes. Lessons from a Golden Coin contrasted to a poetic narrative of an obscure king’s life, leading to ruminations on the value of art, history and beauty. The poem has been described as historical (Dallas, 1987, p. 67), erotic (Savidis, 1985, p. 232; Cavafy, 1984), and political (Savidis, 1985, p. 330) as well as “self-referenti

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How to Read an Ancient Coin in the Early 1900sgaze as manifest in his reading of the coin portrait. As previously discussed, the artistic value of this particular portrait has been unequivocally praised by commentators, from its initial presentation in Newton’s article (1871) to recent years (Salvesen, 1991, pp. 6–8). But Cavafy clearly had no

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“Caesarion” as Palimpsesters to Ptolemy XV Philopator Philometor, son of the seventh and most famous Cleopatra and allegedly Julius Caesar and nominally the last monarch of the Lagid dynasty in Egypt. He was born in 47 BCE and was put to death by Octavian seventeen years later, shortly after the suicides of Antony and his m

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Reading As Writing: “Athyr” it, he sent word to the editor, Stefanos Pargas, to drop by his house to collect it for publication. Pargas found the poet “restless and jittery, pacing up and down in the small living room and the corridor, with the manuscript projecting from his pocket and his hands locked behind his back.” “Take

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Antique Desirese earlier critics of his work and were often shunned from critical consideration or met with fierce satire. But even in recent years, after Cavafy’s international acclaim as a gay poet and his recognition in the context of World Literature, critical discussion of his erotic poetry tends to be sharpl

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