Anna Komnene (Greek: Ἄννα Κομνηνή, romanized: Ánna Komnēnḗ; 1 December 1083 – 1153), commonly Latinized as Anna Comnena, was a Byzantine Greek princess and historian. She is the author of the Alexiad, an account of the reign of her father, Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos.
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Nov 16, 2020 ˇ Anna was born in Constantinople in 1083, the daughter of Alexios Komnenos and his wife Eirene, rulers of the Byzantine Empire – the eastern half ...
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Mar 2, 2018 ˇ That sense of mission and superiority drove Anna Komnene all her life. She was the eldest child of the Emperor Alexios and the Empress Irene.
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As the daughter of a Byzantine emperor Anna was well educated in astronomy, medicine, history, military affairs, history, geography, and math.
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Anna Komnene, daughter of Byzantine emperor Alexios, spent the last decade of her life creating a 500-page history of her father's reign called “The Alexiad.”
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Apr 26, 2022 ˇ 1083–1153) was a Byzantine princess and scholar, daughter of the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina.
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A woman of extraordinary education and intellect, she was the only Byzantine female historian and one of the first and foremost historians in medieval Europe.
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"Anna Komnene, Learned Women and the Book in Byzantine Art." In Anna Komnene and Her Times. Edited by Thalia Gouma-Petersen. 125-56. New York: Garland, 2000 ...
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Anna Komnene (1083 - 1153) was a Byzantine princess in the eleventh and twelfth century, but her life was not a fairytale at all.
Dec 2, 2018 ˇ Princess Anna Komnene makes good use of her political retirement by writing her Alexiad and gathering a circle of scholars to write commentaries on Aristotle.
