Zacharias Rhetor

Zacharias was born and raised in a Christian family near Gaza, which hosted a significant school of rhetorics in late antiquity.

[citation needed] Zacharias composed several works in Greek, among which is an ecclesiastical history that was probably completed towards the end of the 5th century.

Zacharias also composed three biographies of Monophysitic clergymen who he had met personally: the above-mentioned Severus, Peter the Iberian and the Egyptian monk Isaiah the Younger.

This anonymous author, who has been commonly known as Pseudo-Zacharias Rhetor, incorporated it in Historia Miscellanea, a 12-book compilation of ecclesiastical histories.

A new English translation was published by Liverpool University Press in 2011 under the title The Chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor: Church and War in Late Antiquity.