Late antiquity and the Hellenistic era were two of Constantine Cavafy’s favorite historical periods, and he set a considerable number of his poems in them. Situated sometime during the first three centuries of Christianity, In the Month of Athyr (Εν… Read More ›
The charms of shopping have never been more celebrated than in this most delicate and intriguing poem about mutual and tacit recognition. He Was Asking about the Quality— (Πὠτoυσε για την πoιóτητα—) elaborates on a moment of successful intersubjective gaze… Read More ›
Among Constantine Cavafy’s latest compositions, Days of 1908 (Mεpες τoυ 1908) is one of a series of poems that name specific years in their titles and that, as such, may be called “memory poems.” The tone is suggestively autobiographical, as… Read More ›