Cavafy's Hellenistic antiquities : history, archaeology, empire / Takis Kayalis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kayalis, Takis

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

New antiquity

The new antiquity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cavafy, Constantine, 1863-1933--Criticism and interpretation.

Cavafy, Constantine.

Antiquities in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgments

Contents

About the Author

List of Figures

Chapter 1: Introduction

References

Part I: Cavafy Reads a Coin

Chapter 2: Orophernes. Lessons from a Golden Coin

1 An Unknown Coin

2 The Debate on Cavafy's Sources

3 Silver and Gold: Cavafy's Actual Source

Notes

Chapter 3: How to Read an Ancient Coin in the Early 1900s

1 Perceptions of Coin Portraits, from Physiognomy to Art History

2 Cultural Values and Literary Motifs

Unearthing the Forgotten Past

A Sense of Intimacy

Authentic Art by Obscure Artists

The Question of Verisimilitude

Aesthetic Features and Moral Judgment

3 Cavafy Reads a Coin Portrait

4 Antiquarianism, Physiognomy, Photography

5 Reading as an Antiquarian: Cavafy and Andrea Fulvio

Chapter 4: What Is a "Poet-Historian"?

1 Cavafy's Use of Historical Sources

2 Historical Data and Poetic Narrative

3 The Historical Archive and Its Antiquarian Shortcomings

4 A Poet or a Historian?

Part II: Cavafy Reads Inscriptions

Chapter 5: "Caesarion" as Palimpsest

1 Caesarion in History

Caesarions Everywhere

Cavafy Reads Mahaffy

2 Literary Caesarions

Landor

Ebers

Frederick and Friends

Michaud d'Humiac

3 Contexts for "Caesarion"

Caesarion Among the Statues

A Ghost Conjured

4 Cavafy Goes to the Movies

Chapter 6: Reading As Writing: "Athyr"

1 Reading and Writing Material Antiquity

2 Another Debate Over Cavafy's Sources

3 Making Sense of the Poem

4 Cavafy's Speaker: A Janus-Faced Reader of Antiquity

Part III: Cavafy's Contexts: Antiquity, Desire, Empire

Chapter 7: Antique Desires

1 Effeminacy, Luxury, Corruption

2 Soldiers, Merchants and Male Love

3 Stylized Bodies, Old and New

4 Antiquarian Porn

Chapter 8: At a Slight Angle to the British Empire

1 Colonial Hellenism

2 Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Hybridity

3 Cavafy's Colonial Network

4 Hellenism and Cavafy's Alexandria

5 The Secret Language of "Coins"

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9783031349027

3031349024

Publisher Number:

99995459919

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Restricted for use by site license.