Analysis Of Prokopios The Secret History

Prokopios was a historian who wrote about Justinian and how great of an emperor he was to the new Roman Empire. “The Secret History” was his own version of history that he wrote secretly. Unlike his public works, he wrote about how Justinian and Theodora, the empress, were more detrimental to the Roman Empire rather than beneficial. In his public works, Prokopios went about praising the Roman government, the Emperor and Empress, and the people of the community. In his private works, he criticized the marriage of Justinian and Theodora, them as rulers, and the Roman Empire as an entire nation. The claims made in Prokopios’ private works came off as way too fabricated and biased to be true. One out of the many overambitious claims he made was