Religious History

Historia religiosa

Written about 440 to 444, probably in Cyrrhus (now Nebi Huri, Syria). The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

Lives of about thirty monks of Syria, with Symeon the Stylite.

History · first written in Greek · a major work

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How we know the date and place

Date written probable: Price, A History of the Monks of Syria (1985): 440, with a later addition
Place written probable: Theodoret was bishop of Cyrrhus from 423 (Letters 80, 81 and 113; Quasten, Patrology vol. 3 (1960))