id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
grbs-14689	Neville, Leonora	Lamentation, History, and Female Authorship in Anna Komnene’s Alexiad	2013	27	.pdf	application/pdf	10101	423	62	At the point of Alexios’ death Anna describes ___ watched over the bodies buried at their feet”: S. Gerstel, “Painted Sources for Female Piety in Medieval Byzantium,” DOP 52 (1998) 89–111, at 102. Yet in its title, Alexiad, and frequent Homeric vocabulary and imagery, it brings the archaic epics to mind.1 The characterization of Alexios as a wily sea captain steering the empire through con- stant storms with guile and courage strongly recalls Odysseus.2 Both in its epic cast and in other factors discussed below, Anna did not adhere strictly to the rules of writing history and rather seems to have played with the boundaries of the genre.	cache/grbs-14689.pdf	txt/grbs-14689.txt