Hippolytus of Thebes was a Byzantine author of the late 7th or early 8th century.
[1] The Chronicle is cited twice in the "short chronological notes" compiled under Constantine V (r. 741–775).
Epiphanius the Monk, writing in the early 9th century, names Hippolytus as one of his authorities on the Life of the Blessed Virgin.
Another fragment reports that after the Ascension, Mary continued to live in Jerusalem in a house bought by John the Apostle with the inheritance from his father Zebedee.
Two critical editions have been published by Diekamp in German (1898)[3] and Curtin in English (2023) [4] .