Ebook: Cavafy: 166 poems

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.