The unbounded passion of the incomparably beautiful Princess Nefrytaten and the tawny-skinned Prince Ameni sweeps across the torrid landscape of Egypt as the two lovers, wrenched asunder by treacherous events, must brave peril, degradation, and intrigue before their twin desires can find release and once more, in a surging tide of full-blooded passion and joy.

    P. Cavafy, one of the greatest modern Greek poets, lived in Alexandria for all but a few of his seventy years. Alexandria became, for Cavafy, a central poetic metaphor and eventually a myth encompassing the entire Greek world. In this, the first full-length critical work on Cavafy in English, Keeley describes Cavafy's literary progress and aesthetic development in the making of that myth.

    

    Teachings given in the great Temple in Atlantis.

    Her beauty was matched only by her passion for life and power. Some thought her a ruthless, scheming courtesan. Others worshipped her as a goddess. In proud defiance of them all, she won in her bedchamber what she could not win on the battlefield: the safety of her land and people, the undying respect and love of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony.