Hippolytus of Rome (late 2nd/early 3rd cent.)

Author writing in Greek of problematic identity.

Author writing in Greek of problematic identity. His Chronicle ( CPG 1896), which included the ‘Division of the earth’ (Diamerismos) based on Gen. 10, was a source used by several Syriac chroniclers (see Historiography, Syriac) and may once have existed in Syriac translation, though it could also have reached them through intermediary channels. A Syriac translation of the beginning of his Commentary on Daniel (* CPG * 1873), on Susanna, is preserved at the end of Dionysios bar Ṣalibi ’s Commentary on Daniel. Dionysios’s Commentary on the Apocalypse also has quotations from Hippolytus’s work on Antichrist (* CPG * 1872) and against Caius (* CPG * 1891); two excerpts with the Syriac translation of the former (with ch. 7–14, 60–1) are transmitted independently, while fragments of the Syriac translation of the latter are preserved in Sinai (New Finds) Syr. M53N and Fragment 23, of the 6th cent. There are also Syriac translations of two works wrongly attributed to Hippolytus, a Homily on Epiphany (* CPG * 1917), and a commentary on Exodus 16 (* CPG * 1924, not known in Greek). Excerpts from some further works by Hippolytus (* CPG * 1871, 1882, 1886, 1900) have been collected by J. P. P. Martin in Pitra’s Analecta (some of these were earlier published by P. de Lagarde, Analecta Syriaca [1858], 79–91).