Cavafy: 166 Poems: Translated with an Introduction by Alan L. Boegehold

Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Cavafy's Values; Poems; Walls; An Old Man; Achilles' Horses; Prayer; Sarpedon's Funeral; Candles; The First Step; Old Men's Souls; Che Fece ... il Gran Rifiuto; Interruption; Windows; Thermopylae; Faithlessness; Waiting for the Barbarians; Voices; Desires; The Trojans; King Demetrios; Dionysos' Band; Monotony; Footsteps; That's He; The City; The Satrapy; The Ides of March; Finalities; Sculptor of Tyana; The God Leaves Anthony; Ionic; The Glory of the Ptolemies; Ithaca; The Dangers; Philhellene; Herodes Atticus; Alexandrian Kings; Come Back.;Constantine Cavafy is considered the greatest of modern Greek poets. His poems treat historical, philosophical, and erotic themes, sometimes altogether, and share a unique voice. This volume includes a fresh translation by noted classical scholar Alan Boegehold, a translation that captures the style as well as the meaning of the Greek, and a foreword discussing Cavafy's distinctive values. Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Cavafy's Values Poems Walls An Old Man Achilles' Horses Prayer Sarpedon's Funeral Candles The First Step Old Men's Souls Che Fece ... il Gran Rifiuto Interruption Windows Thermopylae Faithlessness Waiting for the Barbarians Voices Desires The Trojans King Demetrios Dionysos' Band Monotony Footsteps That's He The City The Satrapy The Ides of March Finalities Sculptor of Tyana The God Leaves Anthony Ionic The Glory of the Ptolemies Ithaca The Dangers Philhellene Herodes Atticus Alexandrian Kings Come Back. At ChurchVery Rarely To the Extent that You Can The Shop's I Went The Tomb of the Grammarian Lysias Eurion's Grave Chandelier Long Ago But Wise Men, Approaching Events Theodotos At the Café Door He Swears One Night Morning Sea Painted Orophernes The Battle of Magnesia Manuel Komnenos The Seleucid's Displeasure When They Stir On the Street Before the Statue of Endymion In Osroene's City Passage For Ammones Who Died, Age 29, in 610 A God of Theirs At Evening To Pleasure Grey Iasis' Grave In the Month of Athyr I've Looked So Hard Ignatius' Tomb Days of 1903. The Tobacconist's WindowCaesarion Body Remember Lanes' Grave Recognition Nero's Limit Ambassadors from Alexandria Aristoboulos In Port Aimilianos Monai, Alexandrian, 628-655 a.d. From Nine O'Clock By the House Next Table Afternoon Sun To Stay Of the Jews Imenos On Board Demetrios Soter If He Did Die Young Men of Sidon, 400 a.d. So They Come Darius Anna Komnena Byzantine Official in Exile, Poetaster Their Origin The Benevolence of Alexander Vala Melancholy of Jason Kleander, Poet in Commagene, 595 a.d. Demaratos I Brought to Art. From the School of the Famous PhilosopherThe Silversmith Who Fought for the Achaean League To Antiochos Epiphanes In an Old Book In Despair Julian Observing Too Little Esteem Epitaph of Antiochos, King of Commagene Theater of Sidon (400 a.d.) Julian in Nikomedia Before Time Changes Them He Came to Read 31 b.c. in Alexandria John Kantakouzinos Prevails Temethos, Antiochene, 400 a.d. Of Colored Glass The Twenty-fifth Year of his Life On the Italian Shore In a Boring Little Town Apollonius Tyaneus in Rhodes Kleitos Ill In a Town of Asia Minor Priest at the Serapeion. In the TavernsA Great Train of Priests and Laity Sophist out of Syria Julian and the Men of Antioch Anna Dalassini Days of 1896 Two Young Men, 23 to 24 Years Old Greek from Old Days of 1901 You Do Not Comprehend A Young Man, for His Art-24 Years Old In Sparta Picture of a 23 Year Old Young Man Done by a Friend of the Same Age, Amateur In a Large Greek Colony, 200 b.c. A Duke from Western Libya Kimon, Son of Learchos, 22 Years Old, Student of Greek Literature (in Kyrene) On the Way to Sinope Days of 1909, '10, and '11 Myres: Alexandria. 340 a.d.