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Konstantinos F. Skokos (1854-1929) studied Law at the University of Athens but worked as a journalist. He is mainly known as the editor of the Ethniko Imerologio (initially called Geliografikon Imerologion) which was in circulation from 1886 to 1918 and was popular with the Greeks of the diaspora. It was one of the first publications to introduce Cavafy’s poetic work to the general public. Skokos wrote poems as well as humorous stories, vignettes, novels of customs and manners (“romans de mœurs”) and satirical verses.

Alekos (Alexandros) Singopoulo, son of Dimitrios and Maria, was born at Chalkida (Greece) on February 2 1898, older of four brothers. He and Cavafy first met in Alexandria in 1917. He was a graduate of the Salvageios School of Commerce and worked for Greek companies in Egypt as well as a broker. He married Rica Agallianou (Singopoulo) in 1926 and lived in the same building with Cavafy, eventually becoming his general heir. He died in Athens (Greece) in 1966.

Rica (Rodopi) Agallianou studied Law and worked at a law firm in Alexandria (Egypt). She directed (together with A. G. Symeonidis) the journalAlexandrini Techni; she was also a columnist for the newspaper Tachydromos and a member of the Press Office of the Greek Consulate in Alexandria. She wrote poems and essays. She was the first to publish Cavafy’s 154 “canon” poems in Alexandria in 1935. Her first marriage was to Alekos Singopoulo and she was very close to Cavafy during the last decade of his life. She died in Athens (Greece) in 1956.

Angelos Sikelianos was born on the island of Leucas (Lefkada, Greece) in 1884. He settled in Athens in 1900 and started publishing his poems two years later. In 1907 he married Eva Palmer, with whose support and full-hearted participation he organised the Delphic Festivals (1927, 1930). Sikelianos was also a prose writer and a composer of tragedies. He died in Athens in 1951.

Pascal Sebah was a known photographer. He was born in 1823 in Istanbul (Turkey). His father was a catholic from Syria and his mother was Armenian. In 1857 he opened his personal studio in Istanbul, followed by another one in Cairo (Egypt) in 1873. He participated in many international photographic exhibitions. He died in 1886 and his business was taken over by his brother and his son, in collaboration with other photographers.