Complete Poems by C. P. Cavafy

Author:C. P. Cavafy [Cavafy, C. P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: poetry
ISBN: 978-0-307-95951-5
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2012-05-21T22:00:00+00:00

We have Cavafy’s transcription of this passage into Modern Greek, and it is worth quoting because, in the subtle alterations it makes to the original, it sheds light on the process by which Cavafy transformed his source material into its final, poetic form:

Alexander, having come to Athens from Seleucia in order to lecture, wrote to Herodes—who was staying in Marathon and had around him a numerous court of artists—announcing that he wished to speak and requiring of him his Greeks. Herodes, with great wit, replied that he too was coming with the Greeks.

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