Athanasios Koutoupas

May 31, 2017

Greco-Persian

I find the proposition that people should learn Modern Greek because this will improve their English vaguely amusing. Granted there do exist an extremely large number […]
May 31, 2017

Political Cavafy

Constantine Cavafy is the pre-eminent poet of the Greek diaspora. His poetry seems unchanged by the time. His work, though small compared to that of other […]
May 31, 2017

Constantine Cavafy: The Poet of the Diaspora

I am from Constantinople by descent but was born in Alexandria in a house on Sheriff Street. I was very young when I left for England […]
May 31, 2017

Cavafy’s Cultural Politics and the Poetics of Liminality

Probing the work of C. P. Cavafy has been intriguing for me, not only because he is one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century European […]