C.P.Cavafy's poem 'Ithaca', recited by Sir Sean Connery and with music specially composed by Vangelis. Scenes taken from Ron Fricke's film 'Baraka'.
ITHACA [1910, 1911]
As...
In 'Alexandrian Kings' Cavafy speaks of the cynicism and worldliness of the Alexandrians, their knowingness. It's not the first time we have found this inference...
27. ENDINGS
Shivering with apprehension,
mind a minefield, foreboding on our faces
we feverishly grab at any half-plausible plan
to plot our way from an expected imminent explosion.
We're...
Alexandros Hatzis sings the famous poem of Constantine Cavafy "Ithaca".
Music: Yiannis Petritsis
Ithaca
As you set out for Ithaca
Hope that your journey is a long one,
Full of...
Alexandros Hatzis sings the poem of Constantine Cavafy "Thermopylae".
Music: Yiannis Petritsis
Ο Αλέξανδρος Χατζής τραγουδά το ποίημα του Κωνσταντίνου Καβάφη "Θερμοπύλες".
Μουσική: Γιάννης Πετρίτσης
Thermopylae
Honour to those who...
The poem 'Ithaca' from the last scene of the 1996 film 'Cavafy', directed by Iannis Smaragdis.
Music by Vangelis.
Το ποίημα "Ιθάκη" απο την τελευταία σκηνή της...
A second instalment of my paraphrases of the Cavafy canon with introductory notes.
8. SAYING NO (CHE FECE....IL GRAN RIFIUTO)
To some of us there comes...
21. THAT'S HIM!
Come from Edessa to Antioch,
in the new city unknown,
he continues his composition.
At last it is done.
Eighty-three minted poems in all!
Such labour!...
