--- title: "3 Anna Komnene Quotes" description: "Anna Komnene, commonly Latinized as Anna Comnena, was a Byzantine Greek princess and historian. She is the author of the Alexiad, an account of the reig..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03f/anna-komnene-85122_abyss_time-in-its-irresistible-and-ceaseless-f_1360082.jpg" --- # Anna Komnene **3** quotes in **34** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Anna Komnene, commonly Latinized as Anna Comnena, was a Byzantine Greek princess and historian. She is the author of the Alexiad, an account of the reign of her father, Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos. Her work constitutes the most important primary source of Byzantine history of the late 11th ## Quotes by Anna Komnene > [Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-komnene/time-in-its-irresistible-and-ceaseless-flow-carries-along-on-its-2/) [Anna Komnene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-komnene/) [Abyss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abyss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03f/anna-komnene-85122_abyss_time-in-its-irresistible-and-ceaseless-f_1360082.jpg) > [The mounted knight is irresistible; he would bore his way through the walls of Babylon.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-komnene/the-mounted-knight-is-irresistible-he-would-bore-his-way-through-the/) [Anna Komnene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-komnene/) [Babylon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/babylon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8c/anna-komnene-85122_babylon_the-mounted-knight-is-irresistible-he-wo_2040645.jpg) > [They assembled from all sides, one after another, with arms and horses and all the panoply of war.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-komnene/they-assembled-from-all-sides-one-after-another-with-arms-and-horses/) [Anna Komnene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-komnene/) [Arms](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arms/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ca/anna-komnene-85122_arms_they-assembled-from-all-sides-one-after_2401889.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-komnene/#itemlist", "name": "Anna Komnene Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity. . . . 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