
C.P. Cavafy
@CCavafy
Poet-historian
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“As you set out on the way to Ithaca hope that the road is a long one, filled with adventures, filled with discoveries.” – Manuscript of Cavafy’s poem “Ithaca”, 1911. Cavafy Archive. #poetry #cavafy #Greece


Apollonius, Cavafy, and @Poochigian, at @AdFontesJournal: Cavafy and Apollonius adfontesjournal.com/ej-hutchinson/…
A guide to the London Zoo (1898) in English with detailed information about the gardens and facilities of the Zoo. From Cavafy’s library. Cavafy Archive.


Through fantasy, through hallucination, he tries to find his lips in the lips of other young men.
A reconstruction and a map of Constantinople! One can see the placements of the forums and some of the major landmarks of the Queen of Cities

La duermevela del otoño y el invierno invita a leer a numerosos poetas; uno de ellos es Constantino Cavafis, cuya sensibilidad mediterránea se entrelaza con la herencia poética de la Antigüedad. Una poesía luminosa, como el sol que ilumina Chipre o las blancas casas de Miconos.

“Pharos and Pharillon” (1923) by E. M. Forster featuring a handwritten dedication by the author to Cavafy. This edition includes the chapter “The Poetry of C. P. Cavafy”, which contains translations of Cavafy’s poems in English. Cavafy Archive.

And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.
“And now what’s to become of us without barbarians.” – C.P. Cavafy, “Waiting for the Barbarians”, translated by @DAMendelsohnNYC

Here, as a lucky charm, is a line written on the very desk where Kavafis wrote 'The Barbarians' and 'The City'. — Lawrence Durrell, writing to Henry Miller (Alexandria, October 1977) photograph: Dimitri Papadimos

Alone like that for so many hours, he’d also begun to have disturbing thoughts about the immoral life he was living.
لصحتك النفسية انسى مامر بك من ألم ، وكن على يقين أنك مادمت على قيد الحياة ستمر من أوقات فرح وحزن وهذه هي الحياة

Statue of Hermes,carved from Pentelic marble. Roman-period copy (1st or 2nd cent. AD) after a lost bronze original by Polykleitos the Elder (5th cent. BC). Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The famous detective short stories collection, “The Return of Sherlock Holmes” (1905) by A. Conan Doyle, features Cavafy’s ownership note on the cover. The poet was an avid admirer of detective fiction. His library contains a wealth of detective titles. Cavafy Archive.


Mithridatis sent one of his officers to ask the soothsayer how much more wealth, how much more power, he’d accumulate in the future.
شتاء الإسكندرية الآن 💙🩵☔️




A brilliant 3D model of the Great Church of Constantinople, the Hagia Sophia, by Desiree Garcia Espinosa

Από την Αλεξάνδρεια του Καβάφη στην Στουτγκάρδη των Ελλήνων. ekalexandria.org/el/2025/10/03/… via @EKAlexandria #Καβάφη #Καβάφη #Cavafy #CPCavafy
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Από την Αλεξάνδρεια του Καβάφη στην Στουτγκάρδη των Ελλήνων.
“Από την Αλεξάνδρεια του Καβάφη στην Στουτγκάρδη των Ελλήνων.Διαπολιτισμικές αναγνώσεις” *** Η πανεπιστημιακός καθηγήτρια Αγλαΐα Μπλιούμη, ήταν προσκεκλημένη ομιλήτρια στο π…
Those interested in #Cavafy’s take on #Gibbon are well advised to read Diana Haas’s masterful article on these notes : moderngreekliterature.org/texts/787?from…
The first volume of “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” (1820) by Edward Gibbon. Cavafy owned all twelve volumes, in which handwritten notes and inserted commentaries and observations by the poet on the historical content can be found. Cavafy Archive.


The first volume of “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” (1820) by Edward Gibbon. Cavafy owned all twelve volumes, in which handwritten notes and inserted commentaries and observations by the poet on the historical content can be found. Cavafy Archive.


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