Well That Aged Well

Episode 74: Anna Komnene. The First Female Historian. With Ioulia Kolovou


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In this week we take a look at Anna Komnene. Also known as the first female historian, (in the west). Her infamous work "The Alexiad" is well known and discussed among scholars. In this weeks episode we take a look at Annas life from her birth in the Blachernae palaca as a "Porphyrogenitus" to her writing The Alexiad and her death. Learn all this in this weeks episode of "Well That Aged Well". With "Erlend Hedegart".

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