“The Mimiambs of Herodas”, “The Funeral of Sarpedon”, “Alexandrian Merchant”

GR-OF CA CA-SF01-S01-F01-SF001-0033 (143)
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GR-OF CA CA-SF01-S01-F01-SF001-0033 (143)
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“The Mimiambs of Herodas”, “The Funeral of Sarpedon”, “Alexandrian Merchant”
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34 x 21 cm

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F15_Φ7, F15_Φ8-9, F15_Φ10

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Manuscripts of poems on four sheets. The item comprises a total of four ruled sheets (the last three of which had been initially pasted together so as to form a double sheet notepaper) and two pieces of paper (initially affixed on two of the sheets’ pages). On one side of the first sheet, the title “The Funeral of Sarpedon”, note on the publication of the poem (in Skokos’ Ethnikon Imerologion), emendations and variations in some of the verses, all written by Cavafy and crossed out. At the top of the page, two crossed out verses of a poem and number “115” at right. On the other side of the sheet, part of the poem “The Mimiambs of Herodas”, written by another person. Cancellations and emendations by Cavafy. Small paper with note by the poet (emendation of four verses) initially pasted on the middle of the page. On one side of the second sheet, the continuation of the previous poem with cancellations, emendations and notes by Cavafy. Number “117” at top right; the date indication “Novem. 1892” at bottom right. Initially affixed over the middle of the page, a piece of paper with a variation of the last stanza of the poem, handwritten by Cavafy. The other side of the sheet is blank. Part of a poem on one side of the third sheet, which has not been written by Cavafy. Cancellations and emendations, handwritten by Cavafy. This side of the sheet had been initially affixed on the blank side of the second sheet. On the second page of the third sheet, the poem “Azure Eyes”, written by Cavafy. The blank side of the fourth sheet had been initially affixed on the second page of the previous sheet (and, consequently, covered the poem “Azure Eyes”). On the other side of the last sheet, the poem “Alexandrian Merchant”, written by Cavafy. Indicated date (“Apr. 1893”) and notes by the poet in pencil, below the text.

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CC BY-SA 4.0 Cavafy Archive Onassis Foundation

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Greek

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Writing in pencil and ink. Physical item wear: paper that has undergone restoration with many traces of glue.

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RELATED WORKS BY C. P. CAVAFY:
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“The Mimiambs of Herodas” >Α524
“The Funeral of Sarpedon” >Α58, Α100
“Alexandrian Merchant” >Α524
“Azure Eyes” >Α524

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Notes (handwritten)
Poem (manuscript)
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Apollo / Phoebus ^(M)
Asclepius ^(M)
Herodas ^(H)
Metriche ^(L)
Metrô ^(L)
Sarpedon ^(M)
Zeus ^(M)
Journals:
Ethnikon Imerologion (K. F. Skokou)
Works by C. P. Cavafy:
"Alexandrian Merchant"
"Azure Eyes"
"The Funeral of Sarpedon"
"The Mimiambs of Herodas"
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PERSONS:
Cavafy, C. P.
Skokos, Konstantinos F.

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DOI: 10.26256/ca-sf01-s01-f01-sf001-0033
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Poems
Poems (manuscript)
Poems
Item 0001 - "Leaving Therapia"
Item 0002 - "The Item in the Paper"
Item 0003 - "It Must Have Been the Spirits"
Item 0004 - "And Above All Cynegirus"
Item 0005 - "On the Jetty"
Item 0006 - "Antiochus the Cyzicene"
Item 0007 - "Athanasius"
Item 0008 - "The Bishop Pegasius"
Item 0009 - "After the Swim"
Item 0010 - "Birth of a Poem"
Item 0011 - "Ptolemy the Benefactor (or Malefactor)"
Item 0012 - "The Dynasty"
Item 0013 - "From the Unpublished History"
Item 0014 - "The Rescue of Julian"
Item 0015 - "The Photograph"
Item 0016 - "The Seven Holy Children"
Item 0017 - "The Patriarch"
Item 0018 - "In the Lights"
Item 0019 - "Remorse"
Item 0020 - "Epitaph of a Samian"
Item 0021 - "Hunc Deorum Templis"
Item 0022 - "The Emperor Conon"
Item 0023 - "Crime"
Item 0024 - "Of the Sixth or Seventh Century"
Item 0025 - "Tigranocerta"
Item 0026 - "Abandonment"
Item 0027 - "Nothing About the Lacedaemonians"
Item 0028 - "Zenobia"
Item 0029 - "Agelaus"
Item 0030 - "Nichori"
Item 0031 - "Correspondences According to Baudelaire"
Item 0032 - "Pelasgian Image"
Item 0034 - "Priam's March by Night"
Item 0035 - "In the Cemetery"
Item 0036 - "The Death of the Emperor Tacitus"
Item 0037 - "Chaldean Image", "Indian Image", "The Hereafter"
Item 0038 - "Confusion", "The City"
Item 0039 - "Walls", "The Windows"
Item 0040 - "Garlands"
Item 0041 - "Candles"
Item 0042 - "Hidden"
Item 0043 - "Hearing of Love"
Item 0044 - "Dread"
Item 0045 - "The Pawn"
Item 0046 - "Theodotus"
Item 0047 - "Homecoming from Greece"
Item 0048 - "Company of Four"
Item 0049 - "Beautiful, White Flowers As They Went So Well"
Item 0050 - "Waiting for the Barbarians"
Item 0051 - "The Windows"
Item 0052 - "An Old Man"
Item 0053 - "Walls"
Item 0054 - "Candles"
Item 0055 - "In the Same Space"
Item 0056 - "Ides of March"
Item 0057 - "John Cantacuzenus Triumphs"
Item 0058 - "In 200 B.C."
Item 0059 - Untitled poem
Item 0060 - "Days of 1896"
Item 0061 - "He Asked About the Quality-"
Item 0062 - "If You Loved Me", "To the Ladies", The Beyzade to His Lady-Love", "Even as Are the Generations of Leaves"
Item 0063 - "An Ironworker, 22 Years Old"
Item 0064 - "Voices"
Item 0065 - "Thermopylae"
Item 0066 - "Waiting for the Barbarians"
Item 0067 - "When the Watchman Saw the Light"
Item 0068 - "Monotony"
Item 0069 - "That Is He"
Item 0070 - "Timolaus the Syracusan"
Item 0071 - "Interruption", "Qui fece…..il gran rifiuto"
Item 0072 - "Suspicion"
Item 0073 - "Epitaph", "Absence"
Item 0074 - "Ancient Days"
Item 0075 - "Candles"
Item 0076 - "Lohengrin"
Item 0077 - "Priam's March by Night"
Item 0078 - "The Inkwell"
Item 0079 - "The Naval Battle", "The Glory of the Ptolemies"
Item 0080 - "King Demetrius"
Item 0081 - "The Pawn"
Item 0082 - "An Old Man"
Item 0084 - "Poseidonians"
Item 0083 - "The Intervention of the Gods"
Item 0085 - "Addition", "Absence"
Item 0086 - "Oedipus", "Eternity"
Item 0087 - "In the House of the Soul"
Item 0088 - Untitled Poem
Item 0089 - "Artificial Flowers"
Item 0090 - "He Who Fails"
Item 0091 - "Strengthening"
Item 0092 - "King Claudius", "One of Their Gods / One of Them"
Item 0093 - "Death of a General"
Item 0094 - "From the Drawer"
Item 0095 - "The Bandaged Shoulder"
Item 0096 - "Half an Hour"
Item 0097 - "Imenus"
Item 0098 - "Love Her More"
Item 0099 - "And I Got Down and I Lay There in Their Beds"
Item 0100 - "That's How"
Item 0101 - "The Closed Carriage"
Item 0102 - "In the Theatre"
Item 0103 - "On the Stairs"
Item 0104 - "January of 1904"
Item 0105 - "December 1903"
Item 0106 - "September of 1903"
Item 0107 - "Coins"
Item 0108 - "Simeon"
Item 0109 - "A Great Feast at the House of Sosibius"
Item 0110 - "House with Garden"
Item 0111 - "Fugitives"
Item 0112 - "Of Ptolemy Caesar"
Item 0113 - "The End of Antony"
Item 0114 - "The Tarantines Have Their Fun"
Item 0115 - "Epigram to Anacreon", "Forgetfulness", "Salome"
Item 0116 - "Theophilus Palaeologus"
Item 0117 - "It Was Taken"
Item 0118 - "The Rest Shall I Tell in Hades to Those Below"
Item 0119 - "Julian at the Mysteries"
Item 0120 - "Oblivion", "Distinguishing Marks"
Item 0121 - "27 June 1906, 2 P.M."
Item 0122 - "The Enemies"
Item 0123 - "Suspicion"
Item 0124 - "The Intervention of the Gods"
Item 0125 - Draft of a poem
Item 0126 - Draft of a poem
Item 0127 - Draft of a poem
Item 0128 - Draft of a poem
Item 0129 - Draft of a poem
Item 0130 - Draft of a poem
Item 0131 - "Visions"
Item 0133 - Notes by Cavafy
Item 0132 - "Among the Groves of the Promenades"
Item 0134 - Notes by Cavafy on the poem "The City"
Item 0135 - Untitled Poem
Item 0136 - "Darius"
Item 0137 - "One of Their Gods"
Item 0138 - "Voices"
Item 0139 - "The Satrapy"
Item 0140 - "Ides of March"
Item 0141 - "Ithaca"
Item 0142 - "No 1 More happy thou"
Item 0143 - "In Stock"
Item 0144 - "Passage"
Item 0145 - "Dangerous"
Item 0146 - "The Seleucid's Displeasure"
Item 0147 - "The Battle of Magnesia"
Item 0148 - "Towards the Fall"
Item 0149 - "Aristobulus"
Item 0150 - "Tomb of Lanes"
Item 0151 - "In the Month of Hathor"
Item 0152 - "Tomb of Iases"
Item 0153 - "I Went"
Item 0154 - "One Night"
Item 0155 - "Chandelier"
Item 0156 - "Days of 1903"
Item 0157 - "Come Back"
Item 0158 - "Half-drunk"
Item 0159 - "Far Off"
Item 0160 - "In Evening-Alexandrian"
Item 0161 - "Days of 1900"
Item 0162 - "Yussef Hussein Selim"
Item 0163 - "Gray"
Item 0164 - "Comprehension"
Item 0165 - "To Pleasure"
Item 0166 - "Their Beginning"
Item 0167 - "In a Large Greek Colony, 200 B.C."
Item 0168 - "He Said That He'd Fallen and Hurt Himself…"
Item 0169 - "Of Demetrius Soter"
Item 0170 - "On the March to Sinope"
Item 0171 - "Trojans"
Item 0172 - "Candles"
Item 0173 - "Byzantine philosopher…"
Item 0174 - "The Next Table"
Item 0175 - "Aristobulus"
Item 0176 - "Below the House"
Item 0177 - "Waiting for the Barbarians"
Item 0178 - "King Demetrius"
Item 0179 - "Interruption"
Item 0180 - "On the Outskirts of Antioch"
Item 0181 - "Julian and the Antiochenes"
Item 0182 - "Half Past Twelve"
Item 0183 - "The Year 31 B.C. in Alexandria"
Item 0184 - "I Became Almost Homeless and Poor"
Item 0185 - "Remember, Body.....»
Item 0186 - "Come Now, King of the Lacedaemonians"
Item 0187 - "He Came to Read"
Item 0188 - "Temethus, an Antiochene: 400 A.D."
Item 0189 - "The Afternoon Sun"
Item 0190 - "Julian, Seeing Indifference"
Item 0191 - "To Stay"
Item 0192 - "Portrait of a Young Man of Twenty-Three…"
Item 0193 - "In Sparta"
Item 0194 - Notes by Cavafy
Item 0195 - "Finished"
Item 0196 - Poetry collection
Item 0197 - Poetry collection
Item 0198 - "The Windows"