The book is divided into 15 books and a prologue. Its scope is limited to the duration of Alexios' reign, which it is thus able to depict in full detail, especially regarding political relations between the Byzantine Empire and

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Anna Komnene stated her intention to record true events, but issues of bias do exist. Emphasis on Alexios as a "specifically Christian emperor", and a moral as well as politically laudable one, is pervasive. Frankopan compares Alexios' treatment in the text to the

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The main theme of the Alexiad is the First Crusade, and religious conflict. Anna Komnene chronicles the different groups of people involved in the

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The Alexiad was originally written in Greek in around 1148, and first edited by Possinus in 1651. Anna Komnene described herself in the

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Questions of authorship
There has been much debate as to whether the Alexiad was in fact written by Anna Komnene herself. One scholar stated that the text gives very few comments that would suggest the author's gender or any other aspect of their

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Below is the list of manuscripts containing some or all of the Alexiad.
• Codex Coislinianus 311, in Fonds Coislin (Paris)
• Codex Florentinus 70,2

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Anna Komnene's writings are a major source of information on her father, Alexios I of the Byzantine Empire. She was around the age of 55 when she began work on the Alexiad. While

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