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C. P. Cavafy - The CanonThe Original One Hundred and Fifty Four Poems Constantine Cavafy"s poems survive translation better than most. One reason for this is the sheer interest of their content: homoerotic amours in exotic settings, the dooms of tyrants, the various crossed destinies of sophists and drifters and soothsayers his treatment of such matters is enough to convince a non Greek readership of his genius. Because of their psychological and political acuity, their

implicit and explicit

The commentary

of building a modern nation on

σε διαλυμένους έρωτες και οικογένειες με πολλά μυστικά

Shadi Bartsch brings the poem to the modern reader

αν θες να Τον δεις

"Υπάρχουν πιο σημαντικά πράγματα από το να βρούμε τον δολοφόνο

This is the fourth in a five-volume edition of Greek lyric poets

Full of heroism

human ignorance of the divine

On his journey he encounters all manner of perils

But the strange thing is that