There is something Platonic in Kavafy's love, which desires him not as a descendant of Aphrodite but of Penia, and as such, love for the Kavafian man is experienced as deprivation.

In front of this unfulfilled longing, the poet (re)shapes bodies as tools of freedom in his otherwise heavy solitude. While with memory, he finds refuge in the chamber of an ideal past that resists the destructive passage of time, ensuring the desire for the beautiful, the eternally sweet and untainted.

In this book at hand, we have gathered all the pleasurable and erotic elements from Kavafy's poems, thus composing a literary journey into the innermost desires of the human soul, as mapped by one of the greatest poets of Hellenism.