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From Alexandria to Athens: Discovering Cavafy
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On a narrow street in the old Greek quarter of Alexandria, the world renowned poet and writer Constantine Cavafy created some of the masterpieces that still inspire people across the world today. As of this past May, this home in Alexandria is now open to the public. Together with the Cavafy Archive in Athens, which is home to over 2,000 digitized manuscripts, with poems and handwritten notes, Cavafy’s life and work are now accessible to a global audience. Prof. Gonda Van Steen, the Koraes Chair at the Centre for Hellenic Studies and Department of Classics at King’s College London and a member of the academic committee for the Alexandria Cavafy House, joins Thanos Davelis to explore why making Cavafy widely accessible is important, and look at why his work still inspires us today.
You can read the articles we discuss on our podcast here:
Onassis Foundation has restored Cavafy House in Alexandria
Greek poet who inspired Forster, Hockney and Jackie Onassis emerges from the shadows
1050 episoder
Manage episode 428493776 series 2631806
On a narrow street in the old Greek quarter of Alexandria, the world renowned poet and writer Constantine Cavafy created some of the masterpieces that still inspire people across the world today. As of this past May, this home in Alexandria is now open to the public. Together with the Cavafy Archive in Athens, which is home to over 2,000 digitized manuscripts, with poems and handwritten notes, Cavafy’s life and work are now accessible to a global audience. Prof. Gonda Van Steen, the Koraes Chair at the Centre for Hellenic Studies and Department of Classics at King’s College London and a member of the academic committee for the Alexandria Cavafy House, joins Thanos Davelis to explore why making Cavafy widely accessible is important, and look at why his work still inspires us today.
You can read the articles we discuss on our podcast here:
Onassis Foundation has restored Cavafy House in Alexandria
Greek poet who inspired Forster, Hockney and Jackie Onassis emerges from the shadows
1050 episoder
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