Kayalis, Takis. Cavafy's Hellenistic Antiquities. History, Archaeology, Empire. The New Antiquity. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2024. xiii, 282 p., 15 b/w illustrations.

ISBN 9783031349010; 978303134904126; 978303134902 eBook 

Includes:

“Cavafy Reads a Coin” (pp. 1-18); “Orophernes. Lessons from a Golden Coin” (pp. 21-41); “How to Read an Ancient Coin in the Early 1900s” (pp. 43-76); “What Is a ‘Poet-Historian’?” (pp. 77-98); “Cavafy Reads Inscriptions” (p. 99); “‘Caesarion’ as Palimpsest” (pp. 101-136); “Reading as Writing: ‘Athyr’” (pp. 137-167); “Cavafy’s Contexts: Antiquity, Desire, Empire” (p. 169); “Antique Desires” (pp. 171-208); “At a Slight Angle to the British Empire” (pp. 209-267).

Ref.: “Greek News Agenda. Book of the Month: Cavafy’s Hellenistic Antiquities: History, Archaeology, Empire by Takis Kayalis”. Reading Greece (Feb 27, 2024).

https://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/book-of-the-month-cavafy-hellenistic-antiquities-history-archeology-empire-by-takis-kayalis/