Alexiad of Anna Komnene

This is the first full-scale study of the literary art of Anna Komnene''s Alexiad. Her history of her father''s reign is well-known and much used by Byzantinists and historians of the First Crusade, but the art with which it shapes its central character has not been fully examined or understood. This book argues that the work is both history and tragedy; the characterization of Alexios I Komnenos ...