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Episode 74: Anna Komnene. The First Female Historian. With Ioulia Kolovou
Well That Aged Well
English - April 07, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 67.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsHistory history worldhistory #comunity #culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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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