Mastodawn

For this first year of my Masters, I really want to focus on African cultural lineages and responses to antiquity so it's quite a lovely thing that arts and letters daily served up this intriguing article - https://newrepublic.com/article/198692/constantine-cavafy-poetry-inadvertent-influencer

I've never read his work before, but I certainly will now - the excerpt of his Alexandrian musings is lovely.

It does make me wonder about other north/east African contemporaries and equivalents. Who might they be?

#ConstantineCavafy #Poetry #poet #Egypt #lgbtq

Constantine Cavafy, Poetry’s Inadvertent Influencer

By restricting circulation of his work and cultivating an intimate yet prominent group of friends who championed it, the “poet of Alexandria” helped ensure his stature would only grow after his death.

The New Republic

damian entwistle Mar 23, 2023

Today's poem:

In 200 B.C.
- by Constantine Cavafy

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/712575172106911744/in-200-bc?source=share

#AlexanderTheGreat #persia #war #victory #empire #ConstantineCavafy #sparta #spartans #poetry #particularity #singularity #exception #pride #worth

In 200 B.C.

Constantine Cavafy "Alexander son of Philip, and the Greeks except the Lacedaemonians--" We can very well imagine that they were utterly indifferent in Sparta to this inscription. "Except the Lac…

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Ioannis Nov 13, 2022

Who are 5-7 of your favorite authors? Add them as hashtags so we can find each other, boost this, share your own, etc.
#bookstodon
I saw this toot on my feed, so here some of mine, even if it’s impossible to choose only 7, in no particular order:
#jacquelinederomilly
#constantinecavafy
#ursulakleguin
#georgesand
#umbertoeco
#charlesdickens
#isaacasimov