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"Cavafy" series of lessons

Cycle "C.P. Cavafy"

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Free admission

Location

Onassis Stegi

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Tickets

Free admission

General

4th Floor Foyer

The sessions of the cycle are going to take place over five consecutive Saturdays: 25 January and 1, 8, 15 & 22 February 2014.

Four distinguished academics are going to teach the series of lessons “Cavafy” in which they will approach the life and work of the Alexandrian poet from a multitude of angles.

Four distinguished academics are going to teach the series of lessons “Cavafy” in which they will approach the life and work of the Alexandrian poet from a multitude of angles. The aim of the series is the novel approach of reading and comprehending the Cavafy oeuvre and its legacy. At the end of the four sessions, all four academics are going to take part in a round table meeting. The topics of the four sessions are as follows: “Cavafy: Life and Work”, “Cavafy and Aesthetics”, “Historical Cavafy” and “Erotic Cavafy”.

Taught by

  • “The ‘factory’ of Cavafy’s life and art”

    Dimitris Dimiroulis (Professor, Department of Communication, Media and Culture, Panteion University)

  • “The aesthetic Cavafy”

    Anastasios-Ioannis D. Metaxas (Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Athens)

  • “The historical Cavafy”

    Giannis Papatheodorou (Assistant Professor, Department of Medieval and Modern Philology, University of Ioannina)

  • “The erotic Cavafy”

    Dimitris Papanikolaou (Lecturer in Modern Greek Studies, University of Oxford, and a fellow of St. Cross College)

Credits

  • Academic Advisor

    Anastasios-Ioannis D. Metaxas

  • Designer of Ιnitiatives of the Archive

    Afroditi Panagiotakou

  • Scholarly Advisor

    Dimitris Papanikolaou

  • Project Manager

    Theodoros Chiotis

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