
The Center for Hellenic Study at Harvard University published a collection of poetry by C.P. Cavafy. Each of the poems are arranged chronologically and set beside the original Greek text. While deciding between three Cavafy collections at the bookstore, I chose this one precisely because it contained the original Greek. Now, I can't read a lick of Greek, but I like the idea that if someone did, I could pull out my Cavafy and demand them to read the texts aloud. On the inclusion of Cavafy's original Greek, the book's foreword explains: "Translation, by definition, entails a [...]