Cavafy Archive: “Waiting on the Barbarians”, part of “Seven poems, seven lessons”

15.05.2020

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Seven meetings about seven C.P. Cavafy poems. In each one of them, the certain poem's analysis is followed by a discussion on everything concerning the Cavafy's work. This time the starting point of each meeting will be the analysis of a particular poem by C.P. Cavafy aiming to explore and analyze the literary and cultural context in which the works were written.
Speaker: Maria Boletsi, Endowed Professor of Modern Greek Studies, University of Amsterdam (Marina Laskaridis Chair) / Assistant Professor at the Department of Film and Literary Studies, Leiden University (Netherlands)
This seminar was held on 06.05.2017 at Onassis Library.