Anna Komnene Quotes

Turkey, Scholar
December 1, 1083 – 1153.

Anna Komnene, commonly latinized as Anna Comnena, was a Byzantine princess, scholar, physician, hospital administrator, and historian. She was the daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and his wife Irene Doukaina. She is best known for her attempt to usurp her brother, John II Komnenos, and for her work The Alexiad, an account of her father's reign.

Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity. . . . But the tale of history forms a very strong bulwark against the stream of time, and checks in some measure its irresistible flow, so that, of all things done in it, as many as history has taken over it secures and binds together, and does not allow them to slip away into the abyss of oblivion.

Anna Komnene
- History
- Created
- Measure
Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity.

Anna Komnene
- Time
- Flood
- Obscurity