Anna Komnene : the life and work of a medieval historian
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Onassis series in Hellenic culture
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. A good historian and a good woman
- Why didn't Greek women write history?
- Qualified, and modest about it
- Unbiased historian & devoted daughter
- Crying like a woman and writing like a man
- Gathering research without leaving the house
- Part II. A power-hungry conspirator?
- Death-bed dramas
- Celebrating an odd bird
- A room of one's own
- Ambition & brotherly love
- The "fury of a Medea".