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35.5 x 45 cm
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Manuscript of the prose text "A Few Pages on the Sophists" on both sides of three ruled sheets and on the recto of a fourth sheet (its verso is blank). Footnotes and bibliographical references on five pages. Only page 7 is numbered; at its bottom the signature "C.P.C.". Cancellations and emendations. The four sheets are enclosed in a ruled double sheet notepaper, with the handwritten title. The title has been underlined and there is a line in red ink at the end of the text.
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Greek
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Writing in black and red ink, and pencil. Physical item wear: signs of oxidation.
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"A Few Pages on the Sophists" >Α654
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Cavafy, C. P.. “A Few Pages on the Sophists”. Publication (draft), n.d.. GR-OF CA CA-SF01-S02-F05-0004 (189), 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-S02-F05-0004.
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Παλαιά ένδειξη ταξινόμησης
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- Cavafy, C. P. (Authority)
- Grote, George (Subject)
- Socrates (Subject)
- Plato (Subject)
- Protagoras (Subject)
- Hippias (Subject)
- Eunapius (Subject)
- Herodes Atticus (Subject)
- Hadrian of Tyre (Subject)
- Scopelianus (Subject)
- Alexander of Seleucia (Subject)
- Favorinus (Subject)
- Proclus (Subject)
- Antiochus (Subject)
- Damianos (sophist) (Subject)
- Himerius (Subject)
- Libanius (Subject)
- Prohaeresius (Subject)
- Coquelin, Irving (Subject)
- St. Basil the Great (Subject)
- Hermogenes of Tarsus (Subject)
- Polemo (Subject)
- Herod (Subject)
- Prodicus of Keos (Subject)
- Dio Chrysostom (Subject)
- Gorgias (of Leontini) (Subject)
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Mention of various Sophists and reference to the work by George Grotte A History of Greece. From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation Contemporary with Alexander the Great.