Cavafy

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Cavafy’s Values

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 Church

Very 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 Window

Caesarion

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 Philosopher

The 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 Taverns

A 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.

Alexander Jannaeus and Alexandra

Pretty Flowers and White, How Very Right They Were

Come O King of the Lacedaemonians

In the Same Place

The Mirror

He Asked About the Quality

They Should Have Concerned Themselves

By Prescriptions of Greco-Syrian Magicians of Old

200 B.C.

Days of 1908

In the Suburbs of Antioch

At the Theater

The Bandaged Shoulder

Bank of the Future

Attires

The Death of the Emperor Tacitus

Half Hour

People of Poseidonia

Return from Greece

The Saving of Julian (unfinished)

Symeon

That Way

“The Rest I Shall Tell Them Below in the House of Hades”