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- September 1929 (Creation)
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29.5 x 20 cm
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Ioannis Mainaliotis (1894-1982, real name Ioannis Benopoulos) was originally from Tripolis (Peloponnese, Greece). He is regarded to be a representative of Modernist poetry. He published three collections (in the 1919-1957 period) and his sources of inspiration were the myths and philosophy of the ancient Greek world.
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Handwritten prose text by Ioannis Mainaliotis, entitled "To kavafiko ergo" [Cavafy's Work], on the recto of eleven sheets. The text, an extensive analysis of Cavafy's poetic work, is divided into ten units, numbered in Roman numerals. Sheets 2-11 are numbered at top right. Some words and phrases are underlined. Location and date indication as well as the author's signature at the end of the text.
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Greek
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Writing in ink.
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Δ449
"But Wise Men Apprehend What Is Imminent" >A385
"Ides of March" >A111
"Theodotus" >A138
"Walls" >A50
"Chandelier" >A137
"The Steps" >A106
"The Windows" >A75
"In Evening" >A152
"Safe Haven" >A159
"Aboard the Ship" >A179
"In the Presence of the Statue of Endymion" >A581
"Monotony" >A98
"One of Their Gods" >A160
"Morning Sea" >A141
"I Brought to Art" >A181
"In a City of Osrhoene" >A152
"Ithaca" >A122
"That They Come-" >A179
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Mainaliotis, Ioannis. “To kavafiko ergo”. Prose text, September 1929. GR-OF CA CA-SF01-S04-F14-0001 (375), Onassis Foundation C. P. Cavafy Fonds. From The Digital Collection of the Cavafy Archive, edited by Onassis Foundation, Athens, last modified 01.10.2025. https://doi.org/10.26256/CA-SF01-S04-F14-0001.
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- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "That They Come–"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Safe Haven"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "I Brought to Art"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "In Evening"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "In a City of Osrhoene"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "One of Their Gods"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "In the Presence of the Statue of Endymion"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Morning Sea"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Ithaca"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Ides of March"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Monotony"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Theodotus"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Chandelier"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "But Wise Men Apprehend What Is Imminent"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "The Steps"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Dangerous"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "The Windows"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Walls"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Aboard the Ship"
- Works by other authors » "The Moonstruck" [Sikelianos, Angelos]
- Works by other authors » Les Fleurs du mal [Baudelaire, Charles]
- Works by other authors » Euthydemus [Plato]
- Works by other authors » "Ymnos ton antreion" [Palamas, Kostis]
- Works by other authors » I poiisi sti zoi mas [Apostolakis, Giannis]
- Works by other authors » Ethics [Spinoza, Baruch D.]
- Prose text
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- Mainaliotis, Ioannis (Authority)
- Plato (Subject)
- Aeschylus (Subject)
- Poe, Edgar Allan (Subject)
- Palamas, Kostis (Subject)
- Epicurus (Subject)
- Homer (Subject)
- Solomos, Dionysios (Subject)
- Apostolakis, Giannis (Subject)
- Da Vinci, Leonardo (Subject)
- Socrates (Subject)
- Venizelos, (?) (Subject)
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (Subject)
- Philostratus (Subject)
- Baudelaire, Charles Pierre (Subject)
- Sikelianos, Angelos (Subject)
- Empedocles (Subject)