LC control no. | n 79083928 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Zacharias, Bishop of Mytilene |
Variant(s) | Zaccheria, Scolastico Zacharia, Scholastikos Zachariah, of Mitylene Zacharias, Rhetor, Bp. of Mitylene. Zacharias, Scholastikos |
See also | Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor, active 6th century |
Found in | Dialogo di Zaccheria Scolastico, vescovo di Mitilene, intorno alla fabbrica del mondo, contra quei filosofi che la eternità€ gli attribuiscono, 1735. The Chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor, 2011: p. 3 (Zacharias, Bishop of Mytilene, also known as Zacharias Rhetor or Zacharias Scholasticus; church historian; b. in Maiuma, the harbor city of Gaza, in the late 460's; was active in Alexandria and Constantinople; attended a synod in Constantinople in 536, where he is described as Bishop of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos; not attested after 536; died before 553, when a new bishop of Mytilene attended the Second Council of Constantinople; was later confused with Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor, who wrote a chronicle in Syriac that drew heavily on Zacharia's own Historia ecclesiastica) |