Overview
- Offers new insights into C. P. Cavafy’s use of Hellenistic antiquity in his poetry
- Reappraises Cavafy’s historical poetics within nineteenth-century and twentieth-century contexts
- Uses of historical sources and new readings that foreground the material culture of antiquity
Part of the book series: The New Antiquity (NANT)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Cavafy Reads a Coin
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Cavafy Reads Inscriptions
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Cavafy’s Contexts: Antiquity, Desire, Empire
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Book Title: Cavafy's Hellenistic Antiquities
Book Subtitle: History, Archaeology, Empire
Authors: Takis Kayalis
Series Title: The New Antiquity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34902-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-34901-0Published: 12 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-34904-1Due: 12 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-34902-7Published: 11 December 2023
Series ISSN: 2946-3017
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3025
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 282
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Classical and Antique Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, European Literature, Classical Studies