The Alexiad of Anna Comnena by Anna Comnena, E.R.A. Sewter

The Alexiad of Anna Comnena

Anna Comnena, E.R.A. Sewter

560 pages paperback 1148

15 editions

nonfiction classics history challenging informative slow-paced
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Edward Gibbon wrote of the Alexiad that it ‘betrays in every page the vanity of a female author.’ Modern critics disagree: Ostrogorsky refers to it as a ‘historical source of first importance’ and Hussey calls it a ‘mature and markedly individual’...

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