Item 0008 (2102) - "C. P. Cavafy Poems"

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GR-OF CA CA-SF03-F27-0008 (2102)

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"C. P. Cavafy Poems"

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  • 1925-1930 (Creation)

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29.5 x 20.5 cm

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Poetry collection by Cavafy (Γ9). Double-sheet of paperboard in lieu of cover. The printed title "C. P. Cavafy Poems. Alexandria 1919-1930" in its first page (the first date has been corrected from 1916 to 1919, the second is handwritten and corrected from 1929 to 1930 by the poet). A second doube-sheet follows, the first page of which serves as the title page; the second page is blank; the last two pages contain the table of contents. A blank sheet follows; 76 broadsheets containing 64 poems and another blank sheet. The broadsheets were printed at the Kasimatis & Ionas printing house during the 1925-1930 period. Handwritten emendation in the second date of the title page (from 1929 to 1930) and in the text of a poem. The titles and page numbers of the last three poems of 1929 and all poems of 1930 in the table of contents are handwritten by Cavafy. All sheets have a hole made by metal paperclip at the top left of the recto.

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      Greek

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      Writing in ink. Physical item wear: oxidations; holes.

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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" >A322
      "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" >A346
      "The Mirror In the Entrance" >A346

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      Cavafy, C. P.. “C. P. Cavafy Poems”. Poems (collection), 1925-1930. GR-OF CA CA-SF03-F27-0008 (2102), Onassis Foundation C. P. Cavafy Fonds (Post-2012 Acquisitions). From The Digital Collection of the Cavafy Archive, edited by Onassis Foundation, Athens, last modified 01.10.2025. https://doi.org/10.26256/CA-SF03-F27-0008.

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