{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2703.tlg001.local002","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2703.tlg001.local002/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2703.tlg001.local002","title":"Ἀλεξιάδα","titleGreek":"Ἀλεξιάδα","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Annae Comnenae","authorityName":"Anna COMNENA Hist.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2703-anna-comnena/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2703-anna-comnena/","editors":["Augustus Reifferscheid"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Annae Comnenae","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1884","volume":"1","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"University of Leipzig","sponsors":["University of Leipzig"],"funders":["European Social Fund Saxony"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig), 2013-2014","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Manager (University of Leipzig), 2013-2015","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig), 2015","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"http://www.archive.org/details/alexiasemper00comnuoft","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Annae Comnenae. Ἀλεξιάδα. ed. Augustus Reifferscheid. Annae Comnenae, Leipzig, Teubner, 1884. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2703.tlg001.local002","excerpt":"P. 1 R. 1 Ῥέων ὁ χρόνος ἀκάθεκτα καὶ ἀεί τι κινούμενος παρασύρει καὶ παραφέρει πάντα τὰ ἐν γενέσει καὶ ἐς βαθὺ ἀφανείας καταποντοῖ ὅπου μὲν οὐκ ἄξια † λιθιου πράγματα, ὅπου δὲ μεγάλα τε καὶ ἄξια μνήμης, καὶ τά τε ἄδηλα φύων κατὰ τὴν τραγῳδίαν καὶ τὰ φανέντα κρυπτόμενος. ἀλλ’ ὅ γε λόγος τῆς ἱστορίας ἔρυμα καρτερώτατον γίνεται τῷ τοῦ χρόνου ῥεύματι καὶ ἵστησι τρόπον τινὰ τὴν ἀκάθεκτον τούτου ῥοὴν καὶ τὰ ἐν αὐτῷ γενόμενα πάντα, ὁπόσα ὑπερείληφε, ξυνεχεῖ καὶ περισφίγγει καὶ οὐκ ἐᾷ διολισθαίνειν εἰς λήθης βυθοὺς. ταῦτα δὲ διεγνωκυῖα ἐγὼ Ἅννα, θυγάτηρ μὲν τῶν βασιλέων Ἀλεξίου καὶ Εἰρήνης, πορφύρας τιθήνημά τε καὶ γέννημα, οὐ γραμμάτων οὐκ ἄμοιρος, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ Ἑλληνίζειν ἐς ἄκρον ἐσπουδακυῖα καὶ ῥητορικῆς οὐκ ἀμελετήτως ἔχουσα καὶ τὰς Ἀριστοτελικὰς τέχνας εὖ ἀναλεξαμένη καὶ τοὺς Πλάτωνος διαλόγους καὶ τὸν νοῦν ἀπὸ τῆς τετρακτύος τῶν μαθημάτων πυκάσασα δεῖ γὰρ ἐξορχεῖσθαι ταῦτα, καὶ οὐ…","divisions":[{"label":"ΑΝΝΗΣ ΤΗΣ ΚΟΜΝΗΝΗΣ ΑΛΕΞΙΑΣ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2703.tlg001.local002/#tlg2703-tlg001-local002-praef"},{"label":"ΑΛΕΞΙΑΣ Α","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2703.tlg001.local002/#tlg2703-tlg001-local002-1"},{"label":"ΑΛΕΞΙΑΣ Β","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2703.tlg001.local002/#tlg2703-tlg001-local002-2"},{"label":"ΑΛΕΞΙΑΣ Γ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2703.tlg001.local002/#tlg2703-tlg001-local002-3"},{"label":"ΑΛΕΞΙΑΣ Δ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2703.tlg001.local002/#tlg2703-tlg001-local002-4"},{"label":"ΑΛΕΞΙΑΣ Ε","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2703.tlg001.local002/#tlg2703-tlg001-local002-5"},{"label":"ΑΛΕΞΙΑΣ ς","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2703.tlg001.local002/#tlg2703-tlg001-local002-6"},{"label":"ΑΛΕΞΙΑΣ Ζ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2703.tlg001.local002/#tlg2703-tlg001-local002-7"},{"label":"ΔΕΞΙΑΣ Η","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2703.tlg001.local002/#tlg2703-tlg001-local002-8"},{"label":"ΑΛΕΞΙΑΣ Θ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2703.tlg001.local002/#tlg2703-tlg001-local002-9"},{"label":"Book 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2703.tlg001.local002/#tlg2703-tlg001-local002-10"},{"label":"ΑΛΕΞΙΑΣ ΙΑ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2703.tlg001.local002/#tlg2703-tlg001-local002-11"},{"label":"ΑΛΕΞΙΑΣ ΙΒ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2703.tlg001.local002/#tlg2703-tlg001-local002-12"},{"label":"ΑΛΕΞΙΑΣ ΙΓ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2703.tlg001.local002/#tlg2703-tlg001-local002-13"},{"label":"ΑΛΕΞΙΑΣ ΙΔ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2703.tlg001.local002/#tlg2703-tlg001-local002-14"},{"label":"ΑΛΕΞΙΑΣ ΙΕ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2703.tlg001.local002/#tlg2703-tlg001-local002-15"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2703.tlg001.local002/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg2703.tlg001.local002.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2703/tlg001/local002.json.gz"}}