This book was written while "July was burning," a certainly difficult time for such writings. However, we were motivated to write it by the desire to contribute to the efforts of our fellow philologists who are participating in the educational competition of A.S.E.P.

This edition, however, is not only aimed at candidates for the competition but also at those who teach the subject of literature in middle and high school, as well as at students.

More specifically, this book contains the following:

• chronology of K. P. Kavafis
• complete and detailed commentary on twenty poems of the Kavafis "canon"
• parallel texts
• readings
• musical compositions
• bibliography
• useful online addresses.