• De Imperatoribus Romanis – Konstantinos VI (780–797 SCN) và Irene (797–802 SCN)

Nguồn sơ cấp

• Anastasius Bibliothecarius Chronographia tripartita
• Theophanes Chronographia

Nguồn thứ cấp

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• Herrin, Judith (2001). Women in Purple:Rulers of Medieval Byzantium. London: Phoenix Press. ISBN 1-84212-529-X. 
• Garland, Lynda (1999). Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium, AD 527–1204. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-14688-7. 
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• Wace, Henry and William Smith, A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines, J. Murray, 1882.