“As you set out on the way to Ithaca hope that the road is a long one, filled with adventures, filled with discoveries.” – Manuscript of Cavafy’s poem “Ithaca”, 1911. Cavafy Archive. #poetry #cavafy #Greece

Sikelianos at that time was already a walking reincarnation of an ancient god. He had founded the Delphic festival because he believed that the spirit of place was ever present, and that Delphi despite its silenced shrine was still pregnant with life. — Lawrence Durrell

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Letter to C.P. Cavafy from Angelos Sikelianos (1884–1951), poet, playwright, and organiser of the Delphic Festivals (1927, 1930). Dated 26 January 1925, the letter expresses how moved Sikelianos was by the poems Cavafy sent him. Cavafy Archive.

My slaves empty baskets of jasmine and auspicious tributes revive the pleasure of ancient days.

Ah! do not agonize At what is past deceiving But like a man long since prepared With courage say your last good-byes To Alexandria as she is leaving. — Constantine P. Cavafy Lawrence Durrell's Tower Villa Ambron, Alexandria (demolished September 2017) photograph: Michael Haag

In 1969 a sarcophagus was found at Topkapi, today at the Istanbul Archaeological Museum. Cyril Mango: “One is inclined to attribute this object to a period of decline later than Justinians era, yet not far removed” and it “has a good chance of being that of the Emperor Heraclius”

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I bought another original of Napoleon's plan of Alexandria from the Description de l'Egypte. It shows the original walls of Alexander's Alexandria, which later became the Soma enclosure of Alexander the Great's mausoleum as ancient Alexandria rapidly grew. You can see why many

An old photo of the Theodosian walls of Constantinople, after centuries of decay and wear

“The aging of my body and my beauty is a wound from a merciless knife.” – C.P. Cavafy “Melancholy of Jason Kleander, Poet in Kommagini, A.D. 595”, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard.

We were lovers for a month. Then he went away to work, I think in Smyrna, and we never met again.

Gold coin (nomisma histamenon) of Basil II and Constantine VIII At Dumbarton Oaks @DumbartonOaks Basil II died in Constantinople on December 15, 1025.

الإسكندرية في كامل بهائها ليلاً

Bronze statuette of a woman with a pitcher, among Cavafy’s personal belongings, on display at the Cavafy Archive, Athens.

I’ve looked on beauty so much that my vision overflows with it.

Intaglio depicting the bust of Ptolemy III, Egypt, Alexandria. 3rd century BC.

There is also a wonderful Buddha from the Buddhist university, library and monastery in Nalanda, brilliantly juxtaposed with an image of Ptolemy II who built the Library of Alexandria.

«لقطة من قلب محطة الرملّ وهي متزينة بالسحاب» A scene from one of Alexandria's hotels.

- C. P. Cavafy

Cavafy’s bedroom from his flat at Rue Lepsius, Alexandria, with the poet’s bed, chairs, a desk and other furniture. Cavafy Archive.

Whatever I try to do is fated to turn out wrong and my heart lies buried as though it were something dead.