The later Stoics understood it as " the account which governs everything ," and Hippolytus, in the 3rd century AD, identified it as meaning the Christian Word of God.

Bart D. Ehrman referred to a work by an early anonymous Christian writer ( perhaps Hippolytus, a Christian leader in Rome around 200 AD ) who in a commentary on the Old Testament book Song of Songs, wrote that Jesus first appeared to the women at the tomb.

However, the chronicle of Hippolytus of Rome ( c. 234 AD ) identifies Lud's descendants with the Lazones or Alazonii ( names usually taken as variants of the " Halizones " said by Strabo to have once lived along the Halys ) while it derives the Lydians from the aforementioned Ludim, son of Mizraim.

In Hippolytus of Rome's chronicle ( 234 AD ), the " Illyrians " were identified as Meshech's offspring.

Phaedra and Hippolytus ( mythology ) | Hippolytus, c. 290 AD

Saint Hippolytus ( c. 170-c. 236 AD ), the Father of the Church History Eusebius of Caesarea ( c. 263 – c. 339 AD ), and the Christian bishop Theodoret ( c. 393 – c. 457 AD ) regarded him as a father of Armenians.

Joseph is referenced in apocryphal and non-canonical accounts such as the Acts of Pilate, a text often appended to the medieval Gospel of Nicodemus and The Narrative of Joseph, and mentioned in the works of early church historians such as Irenaeus ( 125 – 189 ), Hippolytus ( 170 – 236 ), Tertullian ( 155 – 222 ) and Eusebius ( 260 – 340 ), who added details not found in the canonical accounts.

The 25 December Nativity of Christ was attested very early by Hippolytus of Rome ( 170 – 236 ) in his Commentary on Daniel 4: 23: “ The first coming of our Lord, that in the flesh, in which he was born at Bethlehem, took place eight days before the calends of January, a Wednesday, in the forty-second year of the reign of Augustus, 5500 years from Adam .” Another early source is Theophilus Bishop of Caesarea ( 115-181 ):" We ought to celebrate the birth-day of our Lord on what day soever the 25th of December shall happen.

The earliest source stating December 25 as the date of birth of Jesus was Hippolytus of Rome ( 170 – 236 ), written very early in the 3rd century, based on the assumption that the conception of Jesus took place at the Spring equinox which he placed on March 25, and then added nine months.

The Ophites or Ophians ( Greek ophianoi ( ὄφιανοι ), from Greek ophis ( ὄφις ) " snake ") were members of a Christian Gnostic sect depicted by Hippolytus of Rome ( 170 – 235 ) in a lost work, the Syntagma.

Duchesne and others have viewed the beginning of the Liber Pontificalis up until the biographies of Pope Felix III ( 483 – 492 ) as the work of a single author, who was a contemporary of Pope Anastasius II ( 496-498 ), relying on Catalogus Liberianus, which in turn draws from the papal catalogue of Hippolytus of Rome, and the Leonine Catalogue, which is no longer extant.

St. Hippolytus of Rome ( d. 235 ) sought to demonstrate that " the Ark was a symbol of the Christ who was expected ", stating that the vessel had its door on the east side – the direction from which Christ would appear at the Second Coming – and that the bones of Adam were brought aboard, together with gold, frankincense and myrrh ( the symbols of the Nativity of Christ ).

The earliest surviving written references to the Gospel of Thomas are found in the writings of Hippolytus of Rome ( c. 222 – 235 ) and Origen of Alexandria ( c. 233 ).

480 – 406 BCE ) whose play Medea seems to have offended Athenian audiences when he fictionally speculated that shamaness Medea killed her own children instead of their being killed by other Corinthians after her departure, and whose Hippolytus, narratively introduced by Aphrodite, Goddess of Love in person, is suspected to have displeased his contemporary audiences because he portrayed Phaedra as too lusty.

Euripides first treated the myth in Hippolytos Kalyptomenos ( – Hippolytus Veiled ), now lost.

This failure prompted Euripides to revisit the myth in Hippolytos Stephanophoros ( – " Hippolytus who wears a crown "), in reference to the crown of garlands Hippolytus wears as a worshipper of Artemis, this time with a modest Phaedra who fights her sexual appetites.

The Death of Hippolytus, by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema ( 1836 – 1912 ).

The Death of Hippolytus, by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne ( 1679 – 1731 ), Louvre.

Hippolytus swore that he would not reveal the nurse as a source of information – even after Phaedra killed herself and falsely accused him of raping her in a suicide note, which Niall read.

From Euripides, the Hippolytus and The Bacchae ( together with The Frogs of Aristophanes ; first edition, 1902 ); the Medea, Trojan Women, and Electra ( 1905 – 1907 ); Iphigenia in Tauris ( 1910 ); The Rhesus ( 1913 ) were presented at the Court Theatre, in London.

The earliest known source recognizing the 25th of December as the date of birth of Jesus is by Hippolytus of Rome, written around the beginning of the 3rd century, based on the assumption that the conception of Jesus took place at the Spring equinox which he placed on March 25, and then added 9th months – festivals on that date were then celebrated.

Subsequently the theme of worship is taken up by many of the Church Fathers including Justin Martyr, Irenaeus and Hippolytus of Rome ( c. 170-c. 236 ), and seems to be liturgical.

When Zeus struck down Apollo's son Asclepius with a lightning bolt for resurrecting Hippolytus from the dead ( transgressing Themis by stealing Hades's subjects ), Apollo in revenge killed the Cyclopes, who had fashioned the bolt for Zeus.

The Latin translation, confirmed by Hippolytus, makes Irenaeus state that according to Cerinthus ( who shows Ebionite influence ), creation was made by a power quite separate from the Supreme God and ignorant of Him.

Some ancient sources, such as Hippolytus, and some modern scholars consider that the epistle " from Laodicea " was never a lost epistle, but simply Paul recycling one of his other letters ( the most common candidate is the contemporary Letter to the Ephesians ), just as he asks for the copying and forwarding of the Letter to Colossians to Laodicea.

The Apostolic Tradition, attributed to Hippolytus of Rome ( died 235 ), describes how to perform the ceremony of baptism ; it states that children were baptised first, and if any of them could not answer for themselves, their parents or someone else from their family was to answer for them.

His contemporary and enemy, the author of Philosophumena ( probably Hippolytus of Rome ), relates that Callixtus, as a young slave, was put in charge of collected funds by his master Carpophorus, funds which were given as alms by other Christians for the care of widows and orphans ; Callixtus lost the funds and fled from Rome, but was caught near Portus.

The knowledge we have of them derives from accounts of later philosophical writers ( especially Aristotle, Plutarch, Diogenes Laërtius, Stobaeus and Simplicius ), and some early theologians, ( especially Clement of Alexandria and Hippolytus of Rome ).

An exception is found in Hippolytus of Rome, who in his work On the Seventy Apostles, distinguishes Mark the Evangelist ( 2 Tim 4: 11 ), John Mark ( Acts 12: 12, 25 ; 13: 5, 13 ; 15: 37 ), and Mark the cousin of Barnabas ( Col 4: 10 ; Phlm 24 ).

** Hippolytus ( mythology ), son of Theseus

** Hippolytus of Rome ( died 235 ), Christian writer and saint

** Hippolytus ( play ), a tragedy by Euripides

** Phaedra ( Seneca ), sometimes known as Hippolytus, play by Seneca the Younger

* Frank D. Gilroy, That Summer, That Fall ( 1967 ), retelling of Phaedra and Hippolytus

* Charles L. Mee, True Love ( 2001 ), modernized adaptation of Euripides ' Hippolytus and Racine's Phèdre.

This fact, along with the quite different wording Hippolytus uses when apparently quoting it ( see below ), suggests that the Gospel of Thomas " may have circulated in more than one form and passed through several stages of redaction.

There are quotes from his plays Hippolytus ( 16 ), Bellerophon ( 1249 ) and Alcestis ( 1252 ), as well as a pair of mismatched sayings taken from his works ( 813 ).

worked on the plays by Euripides, publishing in 1916 a translation of choruses from Iphigeneia at Aulis, in 1919 a translation of choruses from Iphigeneia at Aulis and Hippolytus, an adaptation of Hippolytus called Hippolytus Temporizes ( 1927 ), a translation of choruses from The Bacchae and Hecuba ( 1931 ), and Euripides ' Ion ( 1937 ) a loose translation of Ion.

Hippolytus of Rome ( d. 235 ) is commonly considered to be the earliest antipope, as he headed a separate group within the Church in Rome against Pope Callixtus I. Hippolytus was reconciled to Callixtus's second successor, Pope Pontian, and both he and Pontian are honoured as saints by the Roman Catholic Church with a shared feast day on 13 August.

* Hippolytus, considered first Antipope

It is possible that rather than an actual sectarian name Hippolytus may have invented " Ophite " as a generic term for what he considered heretical speculations concerning the serpent of Genesis or Moses.

According to Saint Hippolytus of Rome ( considered by some to be Novatian's teacher ), Novatian thus became Christianity's second ever antipope.

Phèdre is right to fear judgment ; she is driven to an incestual love for her stepson Hippolytus, much like the other women in her family, who tended to experience desires generally considered taboo.

The Acts were considered orthodox by Hippolytus, but were eventually regarded as heretical when the Manichaeans started using the texts.