This volume plays with the complexities of ironic Socratic thought, suffused with the honesty of unadorned iambic verse. Based on a 50-year continuous scholarly and literary interaction with Cavafy's poetry and its Greek and western intertexts, John Chioles has produced an authoritative and exceptionally nuanced translation.

This book explores diverse but complementary interdisciplinary approaches to the poetics, intertexts, and influence of the work of C.P. Cavafy (Konstantinos Kavafis), one of the most important 20th-century European poets.