Anna Komnene : the life and work of a medieval historian

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Neville, Leonora Alice, 1970-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
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".