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Anna Comnena, Athanasios Kambylis, Diether Reinsch, August Reifferscheid, Ludovicus Schopenus, Rossi

The Alexiad by Anna Comnena, Athanasios Kambylis, Diether Reinsch, August Reifferscheid, Ludovicus Schopenus, Rossi takes about 8 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 8 hours 33 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 1610. 466 pages, about 128,150 words.

18 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 14 hours 14 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 8 hours 33 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 5 hours 20 minutes

The page count is the median across 70 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

A medieval historical and biographical text written around the year 1148, by the Byzantine historian and princess Anna Komnene, daughter of Emperor Alexios translated from Greek - comment is from very basic web research,

Subjects: Crusades, History, Byzantine Empire, Europe - Germany, Alexius, Byzantine empire, history

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