In the canon
The Alexiad
Anna Comnena
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1148
- Originally in
- Originally in Greek
- Pages
- Pages 560
Time, she begins, is a river that bears all things off and plunges them into the dark, and she has taken up her pen to haul one man back out of it: her father. Anna Komnene wrote her account of the emperor Alexios in an archaic Greek borrowed from Homer and Thucydides, from a convent, an old woman shut away after a failed attempt on her brother's throne.
I, Anna, the daughter of two royal personages, Alexius and Irene, born and bred in the purple.
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