Table of Contents
Note 1
Ancient Days
The Funeral of Sarpedon 5
Akhilleus's Horses 7
Priam's Night March 8
Trojans 10
When the Sentry Saw the Light 11
The Intervention of the Gods 12
Interruption 13
Faithlessness 14
Second Odyssey 16
Demaratos 18
Thermopylae 20
Hellenistic Kings
Returning from Greece 23
The Naval Battle 25
King Dimitrios 26
The Lagid's Hospitality 27
For Antiochus Epiphanes 28
The Glory of the Ptolemies 29
The Great Feast of Sosibios 30
In 200 B.C. 31
The Battle of Magnesia 33
The Maker of Wine Bowls 34
Attendants of Dionysus 35
Orophernes 36
Of Dimitrios Sotir (162-150 B.C.) 38
The Grace of Alexander Valas 40
Dareios 41
Marching Towards Sinope 43
Alexander Jannaeus and Alexandra 44
Emissaries from Alexandria 45
They Fought for the Akhaian League 46
May the almighty gods 47
The Disappointment of Dimitrios the Seleucid 49
Aristovoulos 51
The Epitaph of Antiochus 53
Romans
King of Kommagene 53
Theodotos 57
The Ides of March 58
Footsteps 59
Nero's End 60
Unimpressed Audience Member 61
Alexandria 31 B.C. 62
A Town in Asia Minor 63
The End of Antony 64
The God Leaves Antony 65
Caesarion 66
Alexandrian Kings 68
Enemies 70
The Tarantines Celebrate 71
Philhellene 72
Horace in Athens 73
Poseidonians 74
Tyanian Sculptor 75
The Statue of Endymion 76
Herodes Attikos 77
Death of the Emperor Tacitus 78
Byzantines
Reckless 81
Apollonius of Tyana on Rhodes 82
Julian at the Mysteries 83
Simeon 85
If he is in fact dead 87
Julian, Contemplating the Neglect 89
Kleitos's Fever 90
Priest at the Serapeum 91
Julian in Nicomedia 92
Myris, Alexandria 340 AD 93
Julian and the Antiochians 96
Understood Nothing 97
On the outskirts of Antioch 98
From the School of the Celebrated Philosopher 100
A Great Procession of Priests and Laymen 102
Refugees 105
A Byzantine Noble, Exiled, Writing Verses 106
Anna Dalassene 107
Anna Komnene 108
Before Jerusalem 109
Manuel Komnenos 110
The Triumph of John Kantakuzenus 111
Of coloured glass 112
Theofilos Palaiologos 113
Fallen 114
In Church 115
Passions
Hidden 119
Growth 120
Voices 121
September 1903 122
December 1903 123
January 1904 124
Stairs 125
At the Theatre 126
Desires 127
I sought 128
Return 129
On the Possibility of Desire 130
This 131
Pleasure 132
Chandelier 133
Distance 134
Their Beginning 135
In the Entrance of the Café 136
Vows 137
One Night 138
Where I could lie down and be myself 139
Remember, body 140
In front of the house 141
To Rest 142
The Bandage 143
Those to Come 144
The Street 145
In an old book- 146
He planned to read 147
He asked about the quality 148
Days of 1903 150
The Window of the Tobacconist 151
Bouquets 152
Fleeting Years
In the Evening 155
Grey 156
An Old Man 157
The Souls of the Old Men 158
Death of a General 159
Very Rarely 160
Observation 161
Sea of the Morning 162
Half an hour 163
At nine- 164
One Table Over 165
Afternoon Sun 166
From the Drawer 167
In Despair 168
Before Time Had Its Way 169
The Twenty-Fifth Year of His Life 170
The Mirror in the Hallway 171
Candles 172
From the recipes of the ancient Helleno-Syrian […] 173
Prisons
The City 177
The Satrapy 178
Windows 179
Waiting for the Barbarians 180
Monotony 182
Undone 183
Terror 184
Walls 185
The Four Walls of My Room 186
'Hereafter, I speak only with the shadows in Hades' 187
In an Old Greek Colony, 200 B.C. 188
In Sparta 190
In the taverns 191
Prince of Western Libya 192
On Italian Shores 193
A Sophist Leaving Syria 194
There Now, King of the Lakedaimonians 195
Anyone who has failed 196
Anxiety 197
Prayer 198
27 June 1906, 2 p.m. 199
January 1908 (Hidden) 199
House with Garden 200
Che fece… il gran rifiuto 201
Our Art
Ithaka 205
The First Step 207
Journey 208
The Melancholy of Iason Kleandrou […] 209
That Man There 210
The Shop 211
Correspondence According to Baudelaire 212
May Not 214
When they excite 215
As best you can 216
Painting 217
What is about to happen 218
I have faced beauty so often 219
I have brought to art 220
The Theatre of Sidon (400 A.D.) 221
Young Men of Sidon (400 A.D.) 222
Temethos, Antiochian, 400 A.D. 223
A Young Man, Schooled in the Art of the Word […] 224
The Bank of the Future 225
Calculation 226
Artificial Flowers 227
In the same area 228
Portraits and Memorials
On board the ship 231
Tomb of the Grammarian Lysias 232
Tomb of Eurion 233
Tomb of Lanis 234
For Ammonis, who died at age 29 in 610 235
Ionia 236
One of Their Gods 237
In the City of Osroene 238
Tomb of Ignatius 239
Of the Hebrews (50 A.D.) 240
Tomb of Iasis 241
In the Month of Athyr 242
Aimilianos Monae, Alexandrian, 628-655 A.D. 243
In this Port 244
Imenos 245
Kimon, Son of Learchos, 22, student of Greek […] 246
Coins 247
Eternal 248
Epitaph 249
Days of 1896 250
In a small town 251
Two Young Men, Aged 23 or 24 252
An Old Greek 254
Days of 1901 255
Picture of a twenty-three-year-old youth […] 256
Days of 1909, '10 and 11 257
Beautiful white flowers which suited him 258
Days of 1908 260
Prose
A Night in Kalinderi 265
The Mountain 270
Clothes 273
The Pleasure Division 274
Reflections of an Old Man on Writing 276
The Ships 278
In the Light of Day 281
Notes on Poetic Work 291
On the Poet C.P. Cavafy 304
Afterword 307
Index of Titles 333
