Summary Of Secret History By Procopius

Secret history was written by Procopius a bishop of Caesaria and probable is written c. 550 and published after his death was. In the secret history Procopius writes about the way Theodora lived her life, and she does not have any shame in the way her perform on the stage. Procopius describes that Theodora was following her sister Comito step at a young age before she reached her youth and even before her mother put her on the stage. Theodora would always dress in a little tunic with sleeves waiting for her sister to come home. Theodora older sister Comito already reached her youth and was on the stage and had already become one of the leading hetaerae (a high class mistress). That led Procopius to look down and speak in a negative
way toward her. That the reason why Procopius labeled her as a slave because the way she chooses to dress. Theodora was too young to know about the relation between a man and a maid, but she did accept the path that she was going to, and the way Procopius draws it seem she’s more than ok with it she is willing to do it. When she reached the age of youth and Theodora’s mother put her on the stage, Theodora gave her youth to anyone she met, Theodora used her body in a negative way to act and perform in an inappropriate way, She did not know how to play any instrument or dance to perform so she choose this type of perfume to attract the audience. Theodora was not shamed be any role she did, no matter how scandalous it was. Even though Procopius did write about how she is funny and good at mimic; he still looks at her in a negative way because she is using her talent in the wrong way. And I think Procopius was angry toward her because she has no shame in doing this type of performing at such a young age. The way she performs letting the audience cuffed her and slap her and do many other things Procopius had mentioned, like she has no dignity for anything toward her \.