Zacharias Rhetor
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Zacharias of Mytilene (Ζαχαρίας ό Μιτυληναίος; c. 465,
Life
The life of Zacharias of Mytilene can be reconstructed only from a few scattered reports in contemporary sources (the accounts are also partly conflicting – for example, some Syrian authors have "
In 487, Zacharias travelled to
Works
Zacharias composed several works in
Pseudo-Zacharias Rhetor
While all original versions of Zacharias's ecclesiastical histories were later lost, a truncated and revised
The first English translation of Pseudo-Zacharias Rhetor was not published until in 1899 under the title The Syriac Chronicle by F. J. Hamilton and E. W. Brooks.
Literature
Editions and translations
- Ammonius (in Latin). Padova: Giuseppe Comino. 1735.
- Zacharias of Mytilene, Ammonius. Transl. by S. Gertz. London 2012.
- The Chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor: Church and War in Late Antiquity. Ed. by G. Greatrex. Translated by Robert R. Phenix and Cornelia B. Horn, with Contributions by Sebastian P. Brock and Witold Witakowski. Liverpool 2011.
- Historia ecclesiastica Zachariae Rhetori vulgo adscripta. Ed. by E.W. Brooks. Louvain 1919-1924 [with Latin translation].
- Die sogennante Kirchengeschichte des Zacharias Rhetor. Transl. by K. Ahrens & G. Krüger. Leipzig 1899.
- The Syriac Chronicle known as that of Zachariah of Mitylene. Transl. by F. J. Hamilton & E. W. Brooks. London 1899.
Secondary sources
- P. Allen: Zachariah Scholasticus and the Historia Ecclesiastica of Evagrius. In: JTS 31 (1980), p. 471–488.
References
- ^ Grillmeier, Alois; Hainthaler, Theresia (1975). Christ in Christian Tradition Tomos 2-3. Mowbrays. p. 15. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
- ^ Available as a free download. [1]