Themes
Lines 20-22
The names mentioned here allude to Euripides’ Helen and Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus.
Language
Mythic Characters
Line 22: Helen
Line 22: Oedipus (indirectly, through the designation “Tyrannus”)
Bibliography
Capri-Karka, C. 1982. Love and the Symbolic Journey in the Poetry of Cavafy, Eliot and Seferis, Pella, at 212-6.
