Includes bibliographical references (p. 537-538) and index.
Contents:
Poems 1905-1915. Poems 1905-1915. Chandelier. The satrapy -- But Wise Men apprehend what is imminent -- Ides of March -- Finished -- The god abandons Antony -- Theodotus -- Monotony -- Ithaca -- As much as you can -- Trojans -- King Demetrius -- The glory of the Ptolemies -- The retinue of Dionysus -- The Battle of Magnesia -- The Seleucid's displeasure -- Orophernes -- Alexandrian kings -- Philhellene -- The steps -- Herodes Atticus -- Sculptor from Tyana -- The Tomb of Lysias the Grammarian -- Tomb of Eurion -- That is he -- Dangerous -- Manuel Comnenus -- In the church -- Very rarely -- In stock -- Painted -- Morning sea -- Song of Ionia -- In the entrance of the café -- One night -- Come back -- Far off -- He swears -- I went -- Chandelier. Poems 1916-1919. Poems 1916-1919. Days of 1903. Comprehension -- In the presence of the statue of Endymion -- Envoys from Alexandria -- Aristobulus -- Caesarion -- Nero's deadline -- Safe haven -- One of their gods -- Tomb of Lanes -- Tomb of Iases -- In a city of Osrhoene -- Tomb of Ignatius -- In the month of Hathor -- For Ammon, who died at 29 years of age, in 610 -- Aemilian son of Monaës, an Alexandrian, 628-655 A.D. -- Whenever they are aroused -- To pleasure -- I've gazed so much -- In the street -- The window of the tobacco shop -- Passage -- In evening -- Gray -- Below the house -- The next table -- Remember, body -- Days of 1903. Poems 1919-1933. Poems 1919-1933. On the outskirts of Antioch. To stay -- Of the Jews (50 A.D.) -- Imenus -- Aboard the ship -- Of Demetrius Soter (162-150 B.C.) -- If indeed he died -- Young men of Sidon (400 A.D.) -- That they come -- Darius -- Anna Comnena -- Byzantine noble, in exile, versifying -- Their beginning -- Favour of Alexander Balas -- Melancholy of Jason, son of Cleander : poet in Commagene : 595 A.D. -- Demaratus -- I brought to art -- From the school of the renowned philosopher -- Maker of wine bowls -- Those who fought on behalf of the Achaean League -- For Antiochus Epiphanes -- In an old book -- In despair -- Julian, seeing indifference -- Epitaph of Antiochus, King of Commagene -- Theater of Sidon (400 A.D.)-- Julian in Nicomedia -- Before time could alter them -- He came to read -- The year 31 B.C. in Alexandria -- John Cantacuzenus triumphs -- Temethus, an Antiochene : 400 A.D. -- Of colored glass -- The 25th year of his life -- On the Italian seashore -- In the boring village -- Apollonius of Tyana in Rhodes -- Cleitus's illness -- In a municipality of Asia Minor -- Priest of the Serapeum -- In the taverns -- A great procession of priests and laymen -- Sophist departing from Syria -- Julian and the Antiochenes -- Anna Dalassene -- Days of 1896 -- Two young men, 23 to 24 years old -- Greek since ancient times -- Days of 1901 -- You didn't understand -- A young man, skilled in the art of the word, in his 24th year -- In Sparta -- Portrait of a young man of twenty-three done by his friend of the same age, an amateur -- In a large Greek colony, 200 B.C. -- Potentate from Western Libya -- Cimon son of Learchus, 22 years old, teacher of Greek letters (in Cyrene) -- On the march to Sinope -- Days of 1909, '10, and '11 -- Myres : Alexandria in 340 A.D. -- Alexander Jannaeus, and Alexandra -- Beautiful, white flowers as they went so well -- Come now, King of the Lacedaemonians -- In the same space -- The mirror in the entrance -- He asked about the quality -- Should have taken the trouble -- According to the formulas of ancient Greco-Syrian magicians -- In 200 B.C. -- Days of 1908 -- On the outskirts of Antioch. Contents of the Sengopoulos notebook. Contents of the Sengopoulos notebook. The horses of Achilles. Longings -- Candles -- An old man -- Prayer -- Old men's souls -- The first step -- Interruption -- Thermopylae -- Che Fece, Il gran rifiuto -- The windows -- Walls -- Waiting for the Barbarians -- Betrayal -- The funeral of Sarpedon -- The horses of Achilles. Repudiated poems (1886-1898). The funeral of Sarpedon. The poet and the Muse -- Builders -- Word and silence -- Sham-el-Nessim -- Bard -- Vulnerant omnes, ultima necat -- Good and bad weather -- Timolaus the Syracusan -- Athena's vote -- The inkwell -- Sweet voices -- Elegy of the flowers -- Hours of melancholy -- Oedipus -- Ode and elegy of the streets -- Near an open window -- A love -- Remembrance -- The death of the Emperor Tacitus --The Eumenides' footfalls -- The tears of Phaëthon's sisters -- Ancient tragedy -- Horace in Athens -- Voice from the sea -- The Tarentines have their fun -- The funeral of Sarpedon. Unpublished poems (1877?-1923). From the drawer. Dünya Güzeli -- When, my friends, I was in love -- Nichori -- Song of the heart -- To Stephanos Skilitsis -- Correspondences according to Baudelaire -- [Fragment of an untitled poem] -- "Nous n'osons plus chanter les roses" -- Indian image -- Pelasgian image -- The hereafter -- The mimiambs of Herodas -- Azure eyes -- The four walls of my room -- Alexandrian merchant -- The Lagid's hospitality -- In the cemetery -- Priam's march by night -- Epitaph -- Displeased theatregoer -- Before Jerusalem -- Second odyssey -- He who fails -- The pawn -- Dread -- In the house of the soul -- Rain -- La Jeunesse Blanche -- Distinguishing marks -- Eternity -- Confusion -- Salome -- Chaldean image -- Julian at the mysteries -- The cat -- The bank of the future -- Impossible things -- Addition -- Garlands -- Lohengrin -- Suspicion -- Death of a general -- The intervention of the gods -- King Claudius -- The naval battle -- When the watchman saw the light -- The enemies -- Artificial flowers -- Strengthening -- September of 1903 -- December 1903 -- January of 1904 -- On the stairs -- In the theatre -- Poseidonians -- The end of Antony -- 27 June 1906, 2 P.M. -- Hidden hearing of love -- "The rest shall I tell in Hades to those below" -- That's how -- Homecoming from Greece -- Fugitives -- Theophilus Palaeologus -- And I got down and I lay there in their beds -- Half an hour -- House with garden -- A great feast at the house of Sosibius -- Simeon -- The bandaged shoulder -- Coins -- It was taken -- From the drawer. Prose Poems. Clothes. Ships -- Clothes. Poems written in English. Darkness and shadows. Leaving Therápia -- Darkness and shadows.
Summary:
Presents a complete collection of the modern Greek poet's work, including his unfinished poems, which explores themes of longing and loneliness, fate and loss, memory and identity, throughout the history of Greek civilization.
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