Very misleading article This article is extraordinary misleading in whom Niketas Choniates was He was a top government official for one of the ruling families of Constantinople and the Byzantines that is his cause for the proximity to the events prior to the 1204 C E destruction of Constantinople and his first hand accounts of all of these events He is an insider to Byzantine history but he is a historian after the fact Did any of the contributors to this article actually read the text that he is famous for writing It doesn t appear that they have