Contents PROLOGUE ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION I. PAX ROMANA THE BRITANNIC PAX >The "Historiography" of Cavafy and the "Innocent Alexander" >When was "Waiting for the Barbarians" written? >About Cavafy's "Satyrapia" >Cavafy and modern Egypt >Cavafy and Sotiris Liatsis >About Cavafy's "Let them take care of it" >The struggles and distances of the grammaticus >The Elgin Marbles of Cavafy >Cavafy and English politics (a) >Cavafy and English politics (b) >Return the Elgin Marbles >The Cypriot Issue II. THE WALLS OF A CRITIC >The Walls of a Critic and the Art of Cavafy >Cavafy's "Inaccuracies" and "Torments" >Cavafy's "Inaccuracies" and Alexandrian wisdom III. THE COLLECTION OF "YEAR OF CAVAFY" >K. P. Cavafy >Poems, philological editing by G. P. Savvidis >K. P. Cavafy anecdotes, prose, introduction and translation by Michalis Peridis >Cavafy comments on Raskin IV. GENEALOGY V. GLOSSARY >Poems and prose by Cavafy >Main names