Cavafy's Hellenistic Antiquities History, Archaeology, Empire
A brilliant contribution to Cavafy studies." – Peter Jeffreys, Associate Professor of English, Suffolk University This book reinterprets C. P. Cavafy’s historical and archaeological poetics by correlating his work to major cultural, political and sexualized receptions of antiquity that marked t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
| Series: | The New Antiquity
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction
- Part I: Cavafy Reads a Coin
- 2 A golden coin?
- 3 How to read a coin portrait in the early 1900s
- 4 What is a ‘poet-historian’?
- Part II: Cavafy Reads Inscriptions
- 5 ‘Caesarion’ as palimpsest
- 6 ‘In the month of Athyr’: Leucius and his friends
- Part III: Looking at Antiquity from Inside the Empire
- 7 Imperial desires
- 8 A Hellenistic Empire
- 9 How to read Cavafy inside the British Empire