Cavafy's Hellenistic Antiquities

Takis Kayalis is Professor of Modern Greek Literature at the Hellenic Open University, Greece. He has published extensively on nineteenth-century prose and modernist poetry and co-edited Teaching Literature at a Distance: Open, Online and Blended Learning (2010) and Cavafy as World Literature (forthcoming). In 2019 he co-curated the Cavafy Archive’s Digital Collection (Onassis Foundation).

• 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.