Theoi and Theodotos: Thematic Collections and Generation of Meaning in Cavafy's Poetry

The thematic order in which Cavafy arranged his published poems can yield additional meaning for them that may not emerge, or be so obvious, in the poems' chronological arrangement. The study of five poems of the collection G 10 (no. 3, "But the Wise Perceive Things about to Happen"; no. 4, "The Ides of March"; no. 5, "Things Ended"; no. 6, "The God Abandons Antony"; no. 7, "Theodotos") shows important thematic and semantic interaction not only among the texts themselves but also, quite significantly, among titles (quotations), proper names, and Plutarch's text.