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 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