[2] It consists of two books, the first a biography and the second an account of 46 posthumous miracles wrought by Thecla.
The Life is an expansion of the earlier Greek Acts of Thecla.
The full Life and Miracles is about ten times longer than the Acts.
In the Middle Ages, it was usually attributed to Bishop Basil of Seleucia, a contemporary of the actual author.
[4] This may have been based on the remark by Photios in the 9th century that Basil wrote an verse account of the deeds of Thecla.