Kampos: Cambridge Papers in Modern Greek, Issues 7-8Modern Greek Section, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge, 2000 |
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... Anna Dalassena , who , like her granddaughter Anna Comnena , appears to have felt herself cheated of empire . There are many parallels in their lives ; but there is one all- important difference : Anna Dalassena ultimately achieved her ...
... Anna Dalassena , who , like her granddaughter Anna Comnena , appears to have felt herself cheated of empire . There are many parallels in their lives ; but there is one all- important difference : Anna Dalassena ultimately achieved her ...
Page 67
... Anna relates that Alexius sometimes said of his mother that " without her intellect and judgement the affairs of the ... Dalassena's “ absolute superiority of intellect ” ( τὸ ἀκροφυέστατον τοῦ φρονήματος ) . 27 Given the plethora of ...
... Anna relates that Alexius sometimes said of his mother that " without her intellect and judgement the affairs of the ... Dalassena's “ absolute superiority of intellect ” ( τὸ ἀκροφυέστατον τοῦ φρονήματος ) . 27 Given the plethora of ...
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... Anna Dalassena . He gives no explicit indication of having read Anna Comnena's encomium to her grandmother , but it is , as we have seen , cogently , if flippantly , summarized in the lines " the very clever Lady Anna Dalassena ...
... Anna Dalassena . He gives no explicit indication of having read Anna Comnena's encomium to her grandmother , but it is , as we have seen , cogently , if flippantly , summarized in the lines " the very clever Lady Anna Dalassena ...
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an exclusive slogan or a universal | 1 |
Hellenic identity | 25 |
Byzantine historian? | 45 |
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