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- 3/9/1935 (Creation)
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31 x 21.5 cm
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Demos Raphael was born in Izmir (Turkey) in 1892, lived in Istanbul and graduated from the Anatolia College (in the area of Amasya) in 1910. He moved to the United States in 1913 and obtained his doctorate from Harvard, where he taught Philosophy from 1919 to 1962. He moved to Athens (Greece) in 1967 and died while on-board a ship to New York in 1968.
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Handwritten letter by Raphael Demos to Takis Kalmouchos on both sides of a sheet. The sender, professor of philosophy at Harvard University and translator of Cavafy's poems, asks Kalmouchos to send him a draft printout of the planned publication of the poet's Complete Works. The letter is accompanied by two pages from the journal The New Republic containing the English translations of the poems "Waiting for the Barbarians" and "Thermopylae", together with a brief introduction to the life and work of Cavafy. (Athens)
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Greek, English
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Writing in ink. Physical item wear: oxidations.
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"Thermopylae" >Α19
"Waiting for the Barbarians" >Α84
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Demos, Raphael. “Letter by R. Demos to T. Kalmouchos”. Letter, 03.09.1935. GR-OF CA SING-S01-F02-SF002-0022 (1803), Onassis Foundation Alekos & Rica Singopoulo Fonds. From The Digital Collection of the Cavafy Archive, edited by Onassis Foundation, Athens, last modified 01.10.2025. https://doi.org/10.26256/SING-S01-F02-SF002-0022.
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Παλαιά ένδειξη ταξινόμησης
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- Demos, Raphael (Authority)
- Cavafy, C. P. (Subject)
- Harvard University (Subject)