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Author: Anna Komnene | Language: Ancient Greek (trans.: English)
The Alexiad
Anna Komnene
The Alexiad describes the political and military history of the Byzantine Empire during the reign of her father (1081-1118), making it one of the most important sources of information on the Byzantium of the Middle Ages. As well as this, within the Alexiad, the First Crusade's interaction with the Byzantine Empire is documented (despite being written nearly fifty years after the crusade), which highlights the conflicting perceptions of the East and West in the early 12th century.
The Alexiad was first edited by Possinus (Paris, 1651), the edition used in Migne, PG. CXXXI, 39-1244. The best of the older editions edition is that of the Corpus Script. Byz., I (Bonn, 1839); II (1878), which came with a Latin translation.
Anna Comnena (Komnene). The Alexiad. Edited and translated by Elizabeth A. Dawes. London: Routledge, Kegan, Paul, 1928.
[Dawes' translation was a literal one that kept very closely to the Greek text. This is useful but not always very readable. There are almost no notes since she referred readers to Georgina Buckler's great work for further information. Buckler, of course, did not identify quotations and text references - which are the job of the translator.]
Introduction by the translator
Anna Comnena (Komnene). The Alexiad. Edited and translated by Elizabeth A. Dawes. London: Routledge, Kegan, Paul, 1928.
[Dawes' translation was a literal one that kept very closely to the Greek text. This is useful but not always very readable. There are almost no notes since she referred readers to Georgina Buckler's great work for further information. Buckler, of course, did not identify quotations and text references - which are the job of the translator.]
Book II - The Revolt of the Comneni
Book III - The Accession of Alexius and Interfamily Power Struggles
Book IV - War with the Normans (1081-2)
Book V - War with the Normans (1082-83) (i-vii) • Alexius' First Battle with Heretics - John Italus (viii-ix)
Book VI - Norman West • Death of Robert Guiscard • The Turks
Book VII - War with the Scyths (1087-90)
Book VIII - War with the Scyths (1091) • Victory at Levunium (29 April 1091) • Plots against the Emperor
Book IX - Turkish War • Dalmatian Interlude (1092-4) • Conspiracy of Nicephorus Diogenes (1094)
Book X - Second Battle with Heresy • The Cuman War • First Crusade (1094-97)
Book XI - The First Crusade (1097-1104)
Book XII - Domestic Conflicts • Second Norman Invasion (1105-7)
Book XIII - The Conpiracy of Aston • The Final Defeat of Bohemond • The Treaty of Devol. (1107-8)
Book XIV - Turks, Franks, Cumans and Manichaeans (1108-15)
Book XV - Victory over the Turks • The Orphanage • Heresy of the Bogomils • Last Illness and Death of Alexius (1116-18
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