He who hopes to grow in spirit will have to transcend obedience and respect.

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Beautiful rainy days in Alexandria 💕☔️

The Anglo-Greek dictionary “An English-Greek Lexicon Abridged from the Larger Work” (1877) by Charles Duke Yonge. On the subtitle page, the bookplate stamp CPC of Cavafy is found, along with a poem in English, with monograms of John Cavafy, the poet’s brother. Cavafy Archive.

Le saviez-vous ? Les premiers portraits de rois grecs datent des successeurs d’Alexandre, avec notamment Ptolémée Ier et Démétrios Poliorcète dans les toutes premières années du IIIe siècle av. J.-C. Sur ces exemplaires, les deux rois portent le diadème des athlètes vainqueurs,

A reconstruction of the Palace of Myrelion, built in the 9th century in Constantinople.

At least let me now deceive myself with illusions so as not to feel my empty life.

According to Plutarch, Alexander took with him Aristotle's annotated copy of Homer's Iliad, aka "The Iliad of the Casket" for after judging a coffer the most precious of King Darius' treasures, Alexander declared that only 'The Iliad' was worthy of being placed inside.

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“It was a thing of my love, that blood.” – C.P. Cavafy, “The Bandaged Shoulder”, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard.

The pioneer Ahmed Morsi at the 1991 opening of his exhibition “Cavafy Suite”, accompanied by Egyptian visual artists Gamil Shafik and Abdel Hady al-Washahy, as well as writers Ibrahim Mansour and Mostafa al-Husseini.

#Rom365, November 23, 870, birth of emp. Alexander, son of Basil I, brother of Leo VI. When Leo died Alexander became senior emperor over Leo's son, co-emp Constantine VII. Alexander then banished Constantine's mother, Empress Zoe Karbonopsina, from the palace at #Constantinople.

On the occasion of his translation of Cavafy's poetic work into Portuguese, Reading Greece spoke to distinguished translator José Luís Costa about the challenges οf translating the book & how appealing is Greek literature to Portuguese readers Read more👉 greeknewsagenda.gr/reading-greece…

In my imagination I kept picturing you the way they’d talked about you that afternoon.

The Athenian journal “Ethnikon Imerologion”, edited by K.F. Skokos and published 1886–1918, was popular with the Greek diaspora. It was among the first to introduce Cavafy’s poetry to the general public, featuring three poems in its 1898 edition. — Cavafy Archive

Fascinating article about literary Alexandria in the first half of the 20th century - starting from our own E. M. Forster and his encounter with C. P. Cavafy. tovima.gr/print/books-id…

Living and speaking like barbarians, cut off so disastrously from the Greek way of life.

The city of Sinope in Anatolia was a major port and a key part of the Black Sea trade network, it had strong trade relations with the Crimea. It thrived during the centuries of Arab raids as it lay outside their typical raiding area, even though it was attacked in 858. It was

“Those timely words that saved him: ‘Escape, Mithridatis’.” – C.P. Cavafy, “On the March to Sinopi”, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard.

Pasaporte de Cavafis, de 1932. «Profesión: poeta» (arriba a la izqda., en griego y en francés). (Fuente: Archivo Cavafis/Fundación Onassis).