GEORGE SEFERIS was born in Smyrna in 1900 and moved with his family to Athens when he was fourteen. He was appointed to the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1926 and subsequently served in Athens, London, and Albania, before accompanying the Greek government in exile to Crete, Egypt, and South Africa. He was stationed in Cairo from 1942-44 and served as Ambassador to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Iraq from 1953-56. His books of poems include Mythistorema (1935), Thrush (1947), and Logbook I, II, III (1940, 1944, 1955). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963 and died in Athens 1971. RODERICK BEATON is Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, King's College London (University of London). He is the author of Ariadne's Children, a novel, numerous scholarly works on modern Greek literature, and, most recently, George Seferis, Waiting for the Angel: A Biography, which the New York Times Book Review called "gripping reading definitive." A.E. STALLINGS is the Oxford Professor of Poetry  and multi-award winning poet whose accolades include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Poets' Prize, and the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. Her books include Archaic Smile (1999), Hapax (2006), Olives (2012), Like (2018), and This Afterlife (2022).