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- 1926-1932 (Creation)
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30 x 37.5 cm
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Poetry collection by Cavafy (Γ9) comprising 69 poems (85 loose printed broadsheets and two blanks). The collection is enclosed in a double-sheet, with the printed title "C. P. Cavafy Poems. Alexandria 1919-1931" and handwritten dedication by Cavafy to Kostas Miniakis in the first page. Table of contents, arranged chronologically by year (1919-1931), with handwritten additions for the years 1929-1931 in the last two pages of the double-sheet. The poems are numbered in print, corrected in many instances by the poet. Handwritten emendations in some verses (43, 46). The broadsheets were printed at the Kasimatis & Ionas printing house in Alexandria. Additional information regarding the year they were first printed (1926-1932) mentioned in some cases. All sheets, except for three, have a hole from a metal paperclip at the top left of the recto.
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Greek
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Thick and plain paper. Black ink. Physical item wear: oxidations; tears in the double-sheet; holes in all sheets at the point of joining.
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"The Afternoon Sun" >Α164
"To Stay" >Α232
"Of the Jews (50 A.D.)" >Α165
"Imenus" >Α165
"Aboard the Ship">Α179
"Of Demetrius Soter (162-150 B.C.)" >Α167
"If Indeed He Died" >Α171
"Young Men of Sidon (400 A.D.)" >Α171
"That They Come-" >Α179
"Darius">Α344
"Anna Comnena" >Α241
"Byzantine Noble, in Exile, Versifying" >Α179
"Their Beginning" >Α201
"Favour of Alexander Balas" >Α181
"Melancholy of Jason, Son of Cleander: Poet in Commagene: 595 A.D." >Α191
"Demaratus" >Α192
"I Brought to Art" >Α181
"From the School of the Renowned Philosopher" >Α191
"Maker of Wine Bowls" >Α581
"Those Who Fought on Behalf of the Achaean League" >Α222
"For Antiochus Epiphanes" >Α364
"In An Old Book-" >Α216
"In Despair" >Α581
"Julian, Seeing Indifference" >Α386
"Epitaph of Antiochus, King of Commagene" >Α620
"Theater of Sidon (400 A.D.)" >Α249
"Julian in Nicomedea" >Α225
"Before Time Could Alter Them" >Α225
"He Came to Read-" >Α234
"In 31 B.C. in Alexandria" >Α234
"John Cantacuzenus Triumphs" >Α249
"Temethus, an Antiochene: 400 A.D." >Α255
"Of Colored Glass" >Α259
"The 25th Year of His Life" >Α259
"On the Italian Seashore" >Α259
"In the Boring Village" >Α309
"Apollonius of Tyana in Rhodes" >Α281
"Cleitus's Illness" >Α282
"In a Municipality of Asia Minor" >Α275
"Priest of the Serapeum" >Α282
"In the Taverns-" >Α368
"A Great Procession of Priests and Laymen" >Α357
"Sophist Departing from Syria" >Α293
"Julian and the Antiochenes" >Α620
"Anna Dalassene" >Α293
"Days of 1896" >Α301
"Two Young Men, 23 to 24 Years Old" >Α322
"Greek Since Ancient Times" >Α344
"Days of 1901" >Α581
"You Didn't Understand" >Α311
"A Young Man, Skilled in the Art of the Word - in his 24th Year" >Α575
"In Sparta" >Α357
"Portrait of a Young Man of Twenty-Three Done by His Friend of the Same Age, an Amateur" >Α346
"In a Large Greek Colony, 200 B.C." >Α345
"Potentate from Western Libya" >Α327
"Cimon Son of Learchus, 22 Years Old, Teacher of Greek Letters (in Cyrene)" >Α581
"On the March to Sinope" >Α332
"Days of 1909, '10, and '11" >Α346
"Myres: Alexandria in 340 A.D." >Α344
"Alexander Jannaeus, and Alexandra" >Α364
"Beautiful, White Flowers As They Went So Well >Α346
"Come Now, King of the Lacedaemonians" >Α385
"In the Same Space" >Α346
"The Mirror in the Entrance" >Α346
"He Asked About the Quality-" >Α350
"Should Have Taken the Trouble" >Α350
"According to the Formulas of Ancient Greco-Syrian Magicians" >Α361
"In 200 B.C." >Α385
"Days of 1908" >Α378
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Cavafy, C. P.. “C.P. Cavafy Poems [1919-1931]”. Poems (collection), 1926-1932. GR-OF CA CA-SF01-S01-F02-SF003-0019 (2080), 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-S01-F02-SF003-0019.
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- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Come Now, King of the Lacedaemonians"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Byzantine Noble, in Exile, Versifying"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Alexander Jannaeus, and Alexandra"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Anna Dalassene"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Anna Comnena"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "That They Come–"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Darius"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "From the School of the Renowned Philosopher"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Of Colored Glass"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Demaratus"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Of Demetrius Soter (165-150 B.C.)"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Apollonius of Tyana in Rhodes"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Two Young Men, 23 to 24 Years Old"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Should Have Taken the Trouble"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Portrait of a Young Man of Twenty-Three Done by His Friend of the Same Age, an Amateur"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "On the Italian Seashore"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "I Brought to Art"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "In Despair"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "In a Municipality of Asia Minor"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "In a Large Greek Colony, 200 B.C."
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "On the March to Sinope"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "A Young Man, Skilled in the Art of the Word- in His 24th Year"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Epitaph of Antiochus, King of Commagene"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Favour of Alexander Balas"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Cleitus's Illness"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Their Beginning"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Theater of Sidon (400 A. D.)"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Priest of the Serapeum"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Imenus"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Potentate from Western Libya"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "He Came to Read—"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "According to the Formulas of Ancient Greco-Syrian Magicians"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "A Great Procession of Priests and Laymen"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Cimon Son of Learchus, 22 Years Old, Teacher of Greek Letters (in Cyrene)"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Days of 1896"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Melancholy of Jason, Son of Cleander: Poet in Commagene: 595 A.D."
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Days of 1901"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Young Men of Sidon (400 A.D.)"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Days of 1908"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Days of 1909, '10, and '11"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "To Stay"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "In the Taverns"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Myres: Alexandria in 340 A.D. "
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "The Afternoon Sun"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Greek Since Ancient Times"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Julian in Nicomedia"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Julian and the Antiochenes"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Julian, Seeing Indifference"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "John Cantacuzenus Triumphs"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "The Mirror in the Entrance"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Before Time Could Alter Them"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "For Antiochus Epiphanes"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "He Asked About the Quality–"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "In the Boring Village"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "In the Same Space"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "In 200 B.C."
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "You Didn't Understand"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Those Who Fought on Behalf of the Achaean League"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Sophist Departing from Syria"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "In an Old Book"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Beautiful, White Flowers As They Went So Well"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Maker of Wine Bowls"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Temethus, an Antiochene : 400 A.D."
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "The 25th Year of His Life"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "The Year 31 B.C. in Alexandria"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "If Indeed He Died"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Aboard the Ship"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Of the Jews (50 A.D.)"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "In Sparta"
- Poems (collection)
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- Loose prints
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- Cavafy, C. P. (Authority)