GREEK

Annae Comnenae Alexias. Pars prior: Prolegomena et Textus

By ANNA KOMNENE , Diether R. Reinsch , Athanasios Kambylis

Book information

Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
Year
2001
Language
greek
Format
PDF
Filesize
30 MB (31092270 bytes)
Series
Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae – Series Berolinensis 40.1
Pages
288\288
Topic
History
Time added
2016-05-25 07:27:35

Description

In her work, the historian Anna Komnene (1083 to approx. 1153), daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I, deals with the period of her father's reign from his first successes as a youthful army commander and his successful rebellion up to his death. She includes an account of the First Crusade from a Byzantine perspective and draws impressive portraits of the protagonists. Together with the works of Michael Psellos and Niketas Choniates, her account belongs to the most brilliant achievements of Byzantine historiography.This new critical edition contains numerous textual improvements over earlier editions and presents for the first time a complete documentation of the epitomes together with comprehensive indexes giving access to the text.

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