[Kolaitis, Memas]. Cavafy as I Knew Him: With 96 Annotated Translations of His Poems, and a Translation of The Golden Verses of Pythagoras by Memas Kolaitis. Santa Barbara, CA: © Memas Kolaitis, 1980. 327 [one-sided] leaves. [Bilingual edition]. Bound typescript.^

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Contains: "Two Self-inflicted Sketches" [illustration]; 'Cavafy as I Knew Him' [fourteen chapters on Cavafy]: I. "My Reasons for this Work" (pp. 1-5); II. "'Mixed Idiom' and Cavafy" (pp. 6-28); III. "Cavafy's Alexandria" (pp. 29-34); IV. "My Association with Cavafy" (pp. 35-43); V. "On Cavafy and 'Society'" (pp. 44-48); VI: "Malanos as 'Critic and Psychographer'" (pp. 49-57); VII. "'Cavafian Self-Comments'" (pp. 58-63); VIII. "Cavafy's Middle Name" (pp. 64-66); IX. "Cavafy's Rue Lepsius" (pp. 67-68); X. "Cavafy's 'Hellenicity'" (pp. 69-80); XI. "Cavafy and Translations" (pp. 81-82); XII. "Cavafy's Religious Feelings" (pp. 83-85); XIII. "Cavafy's Homosexuality" (pp. 86-89); XIV. "Cavafy as a Poet" (pp. 90-94).

'Memas Kolaitis's annotated translations of 96 poems by C.P. Cavafy' (pp. 95-270) [Title page† and Translator's Note precede p. 95, on two unnumbered pages]: "Ionic" (p. 95); "The City" (pp. 96-97); "Ithaca" (pp. 98-101)*; "The Ship's" (pp. 102-104)*; "Che fece … il gran rifiuto" (p. 105); "Walls" (pp. 106-108); "Voices" (p. 109); "Anna Dalassena" (pp. 110-111); "Anna Comnena" (pp. 112-113); "Candles" (pp. 114-115); "In the Environs of Antioch" (pp. 116-120); "The Souls of Ancient Men" (p. 121); "Philhellene" (pp. 122-124); "Addition" (p. 125); "Aristobulus" (pp. 126-128); "Return" (p. 129); "Awaiting the Barbarians" (pp. 130-132); "As Best as You Can" (p. 133); "In a Town of Osrhoene" (pp. 134-135); "Trojans" (pp. 136-137); "In 200 B.C." (pp. 138-141); "Theodotus" (pp. 142-143); "Hazardous Ventures" (pp. 144-148); "In This Very Space" (p. 149); "Lysias the Grammarian's Tomb" (pp. 150-152); "The Morning Sea" (p. 153); "The Satrapy" (pp. 154-156); "But Rarely" (p. 157); "Of the Hebrews (50 A.D.)" (pp. 158-159); "Melancholy of Jason of Cleander, a Poet in Commagene, 595 A.D." (pp. 160-161); "The Glory of the Ptolemies" (pp. 162-163); "Alexandrian Kings" (pp. 164-166); "Favor of Alexander Balas" (p. 167); "For Ammon, Who Died at 29, in 610" (pp. 168-169); "In a Great Greek Colony, 200 B.C." (pp. 170-172); "In Church" (p. 173); "The End of Antony" (pp. 174-175); "From Recipes of Ancient Graeco-Syrian Magi" (pp. 176-177); "An Evening" (pp. 178-179); "The God Forsaking Antony" (pp. 180-181); "Apollonius of Tyana in Rhodes" (p. 182); "Not Discerned" (p. 183); "Herodes Atticus" (pp. 184-185); "Through Pleasure" (p. 186); "Awareness of Love" (p. 187); "Of the School of the Renowned Philosopher" (pp. 188-190); "Priest of the Serapeum" (p. 191); "Ides of March" (pp. 192-193); "They Could Have Had a Care" (pp. 194-196); "Days of 1903" (p. 197); "Demaratus" (pp. 198-200); "Ignatius' Tomb" (p. 201); "If Indeed Deceased" (pp. 202-204); "Who Fought for the Achaean League" (p. 205); "Eurion's Tomb" (pp. 206-207); "Alexander Yannai, and Alexandra" (pp. 208-210); "He Vows" (p. 211); "Crossing Over" (p. 212); "When Aroused" (p. 213); "Covertly" (pp. 214-215); "I Went" (p. 216); "The Nearby Table" (p. 217); "So Long Intently I Beheld" (p. 218); "Conclusively" (p. 219); "Byzantine Archon, Exiled, Versifying" (pp. 220-221); "Understanding" (pp. 222-223); "Days of 1908" (pp. 224-226); "The Bank of Futureness" (p. 227); "Tombstone Inscription for Antiochus, a King of Commagene" (pp. 228-229); "To Art I Offered" (pp. 230-231); "The Ship's" (pp. 232-233); "One of Their Gods" (pp. 234-235); "Far Back" (p. 236); "Their Beginning" (p. 237); "Theophilus Palaeologus" (p. 238); "The Windows" (p. 239); "Monotony" (p. 240); "Anciently Greek" (p. 241); "Since Nine –" (pp. 242-243); "Poseidonians" (pp. 244-245); "Of Colored Glass" (pp. 246-247); "Thermopylae" (pp. 248-249); "King Demetrius" (pp. 250-251); "To Live and Stay" (pp. 252-253); "Grey" (p. 254); "Theater of Sidon (400 A.D.)" (p. 255); "Pictorially" (p. 256); "Chandelier" (p. 257); "One Night" (p. 258); "Aemilianus Monai, Alexandrian 628-655 B.C." [sic: A.D.]; "A Leader out of Western Libya" (pp. 260-261); "The First Step" (pp. 262-263); "Trepidation" (pp. 264-265); "The Hereafter" (p. 270).

'Memas Kolaitis's Translation of the Golden Verses of Pythagoras' (pp. 271-275).

Index of Translations (pp. 278-280); Chronological Index of Poems by C.P. Cavafy (pp. 280-289); Index of Annotations (pp. 290-305); Index of Names (pp. 305-310); Topical Index (pp. 310-327).

† On the title page of the annotated translations of poems by C.P. Cavafy, a note: "Translations are not arranged either "thematically" or "chronologically", since they were subject only to translator's mood and convenience."

All the poems are printed in Greek and English; the annotations to the poems and the indexes contain words and phrases in Greek.

^ This item has been located only in the Library of Congress (PA 5610 .K2 Z735), from which copy pp. 99-102 are missing. The four missing pages may be supplied through reference to Cavafy as I Knew Him, with 12 Annotated Translations of His Poems and a Translation of The Golden Verses of Pythagoras by Memas Kolaitis {entry 4.658}, pp. 95-98.