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- The new antiquity
- Uniform Title
- New antiquity.
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- 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 -- References -- 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 -- References -- 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? -- References -- 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 -- References -- 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 -- Notes -- References -- 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 -- References -- 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" -- Notes -- References -- Index
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- 10.1007/978-3-031-34902-7
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- om3809013544
- Author
Kayalis, Takis.
- Title
Cavafy's Hellenistic antiquities : history, archaeology, empire / Takis Kayalis.
- Imprint
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
- Series
The new antiquity
New antiquity.
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Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
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ebook version : 9783031349027
Original 3031349016 9783031349010
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