LibGuides: G6: Silk Road: Anna Komnene

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Birth of an Imperial Historian
Anna Komnene, author of Alexiad, was born on 1 December 1083.
Anna Komnene: The Purple-Born Historian
Anna Komnene, the only female historian who wrote in Greek before the nineteenth century.
Anna Comnene, First Female Historian
She studied the classics, philosophy, music, science, and mathematics. Her studies included astronomy and medicine.
Anna Komnene – the princess who chronicled Byzantium’s changing fortunes
Byzantine princess Anna Komnene, banished to a convent for her political ambition, devoted her gifts of observation to charting the fortunes of her father's empire –