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Anna Komnene

 

Anna Komnene (c. 1083-1153)
“Such is every barbarian – constantly lusting after massacre and war.”

  • The Alexiad (Book IX, section 3) by Anna Komnene, translated by E.R.A. Sewter, (Penguin Classics, 2009).

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