1. Conditions for the appearance of Cavafy’s work Spatio-temporal context: Introduction to the era, cultural environment, historical conditions, of Greece and the multicultural diaspora. Conditions of the poet’s coming of age, geographical location, spiritual path, conditions of his life that affected his spiritual formation and poetic creation.
2. The basic cycles of Cavafy’s poetry Protolean poetry and Phanariotic influences, the first phase of the symbolic influence, the path towards the “mythic method”, the conquest of realism, the poetic individuality. The self-definition of his work and poetic osmosis: Love poems, Philosophical poems, Historical poems.
3. Basic themes of Cavafy’s poetry Nature-Art, Poetics, Inside-Out, Individual-Collective, Rise-Fall, Victory-Defeat, Man-Fate/God. Theoretical, historical-grammarological and text-centered approach to the individual subjects.
4. The poet and History Global approach and combined study of his most important historical poems.
6. The “mythical method” Study of the idiosyncratic Cavafy poetics through the approach of the most important poems of maturity.