Zachariah of Mytilene
Also: Zacharias Rhetor, Zacharias Scholasticus
Born probably between 465 and 466, probably in Maiuma (port of Gaza), now Gaza coast. Died probably between 536 and 553; the place is not known.
Lawyer from Gaza and friend of Severus of Antioch, who wrote a church history and later became bishop of Mytilene.
Wrote in Greek.
Places lived
- 485 to 487Alexandria, Egyptstudiedyears probable
- 487 to 491Berytus (now Beirut, Lebanon)studiedyears probable
- from 492Constantinopolis (now Istanbul, Turkey)lawyeryears probable, place probable
- until 536Mytilene, Greecebishopyears not sure, place probable
Works
1 work, in the order they were written. 1 work can be read here.
Filed here, not written by Zachariah of Mytilene
These texts are about this person, hold what this person said, or carry this name without good reason. Each page says which.
- Ecclesiastical History (the Syriac Chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah) doubtfulA history of the church from 450 to 491, kept inside a larger Syriac chronicle that runs to 569.105,158 words
How we know the dates and places
- Born probable
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Rhetor
- Place of birth probable
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Rhetor : near Gaza; Zacharias, Life of Severus; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/687903
- Died probable
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Rhetor : alive in 536, another man was bishop in 553
- Place of death not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Rhetor
- Alexandria, years probable
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Rhetor
- Alexandria, place sure
- Zacharias, Life of Severus; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727070
- Berytus, years probable
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Rhetor
- Berytus, place sure
- Zacharias, Life of Severus; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678060
- Constantinopolis, years probable
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Rhetor : at Beirut until 491, then a lawyer in Constantinople for a long time; the page gives no year for the move
- Constantinopolis, place probable
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Rhetor; F. J. Hamilton and E. W. Brooks, The Syriac Chronicle known as that of Zachariah of Mitylene (1899), introduction (the text in the corpus); site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/520998
- Mytilene, years not sure
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Rhetor : bishop by 536, when he was at the synod of Constantinople
- Mytilene, place probable
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Rhetor; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550763