Anna Komnene - Vol. 4 Ch. 23

[MangaDex]

 

[TripleEm]

Have to say, this is definitely one of my favorite series at the moment. It's interesting seeing how she works to fight against certain societal expectation

 

[Ironclad]

Despite how we look at it today, the Iliad was always meant to be orated like poetry not prose.

 

[looc64]

But really, it's not at all surprising that she told him the books she's reading.

Her speech in the courtyard reminded me of speeches/debates based on law or scripture.

Where the point isn't to find and present some rare or novel info no that no else has ever seen before, it's to have a good enough grasp of a set of widely known and respected sources that you can cite those sources to support whatever argument you're making. Preferably on the fly. Also in those times "a good enough grasp" probably included memorizing the major sources.

Point is the list of those sources is like 0.25% of being able to do that lol