Procopius Vs Secret History

What differences does Procopius see between the official and Secret History? Justinian during the reign of the Byzantium empire he had Procopius writing about him and about his government. Procopius had access to a lot of the fights that justinian fought therefore he had information from first hand and he was able to write about Justinian life. Procopius did a really good job during his life, he was the only historian who was able to write information about the Byzantium empire that it was true. he wrote about how Justinian was as an emperor he almost picture him as a hero. Procopius wrote about how much Justinian wanted to do to restore the roman empire. Procopius was able to publish another book called the secret history but it wasn 't until …show more content…
“ If I had, their hordes of spies would have found out about it, and they would have put me to a most horrible death. I could not even trust my nearest relatives. That is why I was compelled to hide the real explanation of many matters glossed over in my previous books.” ( Procopius, Excerpts from secret history, Page 1) Procopius was doing the right thing when he was glorifying Justinian government because it gave people the sense that they can trust him and to trust what he write. I think that even though a lot of people were happy with the way Procopius was portraying Justinian, they new that it was so good to be true, the people new that Justinian wasn 't this great man that Procopius was describing, therefore when Procopius wrote the secret history and people read it they just confirm the thoughts that they had about Justinian and the way he was governing the empire. Is he right to assume that this account …show more content…
Today media is very biased on what the person given the news point of view is, which makes a lot of people believe that what they are told is right and it might not be right or wrong but the news that we see or listen will affect how we feel about them. Procopius had a negative view on Justinian and Theodora which made his wiring have a negative vibe. I believe in this past election media played a lot because some news channels give favoritism to either their republican or democrat candidate which made them speak and portray good news about whoever they thought it was the best person and speak extremely negative about the candidate that they