The Cavafy Archive

This is a treasure chest of translations of the works of Cavafy.

To be read between now and June 17, to distract us from less authentic uses of language during the new election campaign.

This site contains many of the best known poems in Greek, and in English translation (I haven't checked the translations).

The wonderful thing is that you can click on the speaker symbol and hear each poem being read aloud in Greek.


Cavafy’s Cavafy versus Savidis’s Cavafy: The Need to De-edit the “Acknowledged” Poems, Anthony Hirst, March 2002

2007 edition - The Collected Poems: With Parallel Greek Text