Hippo'lytus3. Of THEBES, a writer of the tenth or eleventh centuries, of
whose personal history nothing is known, and whose date can only be approximately given.
Date
In his principal work, his
Chronicle, he cites Symeon Metaphrastes, whom he
calls, as if speaking of a contemporary,
ὁ κύριος
Συμεών; but the age of Symeon himself (fixed by some in the 10th century, by
others in the 12th) is too doubtful to afford much aid in determining that of Hippolytus.
Hippolytus is quoted by Michael Glykas, a writer of the middle of the twelfth century, and
who confounds, as do some moderns, Hippolytus of Thebes with Hippolytus of Portus Romanus
(
Annales, pars iii. p. 227, ed. Paris, p. 423, ed. Bonn), and by
Nicephorus Callisti, who died
A. D. 1327. (
H.
E. 2.3.)
Works
ChroniconThe principal work of Hippolytus is his
Chronicon,
Ἱππολύτου Θηβαίου Χρονικόν Σύνταγμα (or
Σύγγραμμα).
Editions
A Latin version of a fragment of this was published by Joannes Sambucus, 8vo.
Padua, 1556, under the title of Libellus de Ortu et Cognatione
Virginis Mariae ; and a part in Greek, with a Latin version, was
given in the third volume of the Lectiones Antiquae of Canisius.
Various fragments were given in the Commentarü de Biblioth.
Caesar. of Lambecius; and some others were added Emanuel Schelstratenus in his
Antiquitat. Ecclesiae Illustratis, fol. Rome, 1692,
in which he made important corrections in the text, and most or all the
portions thus collected were reprinted by Fabricius in his edition of the Works of
Hippolytus of Portus, partly in the appendix to the 1 st vol. and partly in the 2d
vol.
Basnage, in his edition of Canisius, made some farther additions, and
the whole, with one or two additional fragments, were given in the Biblioth.
Patrum of Gallandius, vol. xiv. p. 106, &c.
Short pieces on the Apostles
Editions
Two short pieces, Περὶ τῶν ιβ́ Ἀποστόλων and
Περὶ τῶν ό Ἀποστόλων, which some have ascribed
to Hippolytus of Portus (No. 1), the first of which had been published by
Combéfis in his Auctarium Novum, vol. ii. fol.
Paris, and which are given by Fabricius among the " dubia ac supposititia, "
in his edition of Hippolytus, are also given by Gallandius as the productions
of Hippolytus of Thebes
Fabricius, in his
Bibl. Gr. vol. vii. p. 200, considers them
to be portions of his
Chronicon.Further Information
Gallandius, Prolegom. to his 14th volume, p. v.; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. viii. p. 198; Cave, Hist. Litt. vol.
ii. p. 96, ed. Oxford, 1740-1743.
Other figures named Hippolytus
Some other Hippolyti enumerated by Fabricius (Bibl. Gr. vol. vii. p.
197, &c.) are too unimportant to require notice here.
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