Alexiad

12th-century Byzantine history by Anna Komnene

The Alexiad (Attic Greek: Ἀλεξιάς, romanized: Alexiás) is a medieval historical and biographical text written around the year 1148, by the Byzantine princess Anna Komnene, daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. It was written in a form of artificial Attic Greek, the literary dialect of classical Greece. Anna described the political and military history of the Byzantine Empire during the reign of her father, thus providing a significant account on the Byzantium of the High Middle Ages.

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