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Amalia Callinus (Fotiadi) was C. P. Cavafy’s aunt, one of his mother’s sisters. She was married to Alexandros Psylliaris and had two sons with him. After her husband’s death, she was married again (in 1873), to Ch. Callinus, an interpreter of the Belgian embassy in Istanbul (Turkey) and had a daughter and a son with him.

Jean Psichari (Giannis Psycharis, 1854-1929) was born in Odessa (Ukraine) and, as of 1867, lived in Paris (France) where he studied Philology and Linguistics. In 1867 he was appointed professor of Medieval and Modern Greek Letters (from 1903 to 1929 at the École des Langues Orientales Vivantes). He was an extreme demoticist and wrote novels, short stories, poems and plays, in Greek, French and Italian. He was involved in the Dreyfus affair, contributing to the revision of the trial, and lost his two sons during World War I.

Charles H. C. Prentice was one of the three partners and co-managers of the Chatto & Windus publishing house (the other two were Harold Raymond and Ian Parsons) during the 1920s and 1930s.

Georges Poniridy (1887?-1982) was born in Chalcedon (Kadıköy), Istanbul (Turkey). He studied music in Europe, where he was also professionally active for many years. He had been influenced by Byzantine music and Greece’s folklore tradition. He composed pieces for piano, songs and symphonic pieces. He died in Athens (Greece).

Céleste Polychroniadou-Karavia (1904-1985) was born in Athens (Greece). She studied music at the Athens Conservatory and in 1930 she went to Paris (France), at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, where she studied, inter alia, painting and sketching. She was a member of the “Art” group and organised many personal exhibitions in Greece and abroad, participating also in many group exhibitions. She was the wife of the author Panos Karavias.

Athanasios G. Politis (1893-1967) was a diplomat. He served at the Greek Consulate General in Alexandria (as of 1923) as well as in Cairo. He wrote the two-volume historical study entitled *O Ellinismos kai I neotera Egyptos”, which was published by the Grammata publishing house (1928, 1930).

The Athenian newspaper Politeia was first published in 1917 by Theologos Nikoloudis and Spyridon Alibertis. It was distributed until 1933.

William Plomer (1903-1973) was a South African and British author. He was educated in the United Kingdom. He wrote poems, short stories, novels, biographies and librettos. He was a friend of Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster.