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The Alexiad of Anna Komnene: Artistic Strategy in the Making of a Myth Buckley, Penelope (University of Melbourne)
The Alexiad of Anna Komnene: Artistic Strategy in the Making of a Myth
Buckley, Penelope (University of Melbourne)
Anna Komnene's history of her father, the Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, is an enormously important twelfth-century Byzantine text. This is the first full-length critical study of the literary art by which he is brought intensely alive to personify Byzantine traditions, culture and destiny.
344 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 27, 2014 |
| ISBN13 | 9781107037229 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 331 |
| Dimensions | 160 × 233 × 23 mm · 596 g (Weight (estimated)) |