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 proper form of the name is evidently Abrasax, as with the Greek writers, Hippolytus, Epiphanias, Didymus ( De Trin.

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.

In some versions, however, Theseus marries Hippolyta and in others, he marries Antiope and she does not die ; by this marriage with the Amazon Theseus had a son Hippolytus.

According to Hippolytus of Rome, John Mark is not Mark the Cousin of Barnabas, and Barnabas did not dispute with Paul because of personal favor to a blood relative, but due to his character as his nickname Barnabas (" Son of Encouragement ") indicates.

Darrell Bock also takes the view that Mary Magdalene was not singled out, but was part of a group of women who shared the honour, that for Hippolytus " she was one of a few apostles ", stating the term did not originate with Hippolytus.

He succeeded Pope Pontian, who had been deported from Rome to Sardinia ( along with the antipope Hippolytus ).

Hippolytus gives a much more doctrinally detailed account of Simonianism, including a system of divine emanations and interpretations of the Old Testament, with extensive quotations from the Apophasis Megale.

He differed with Hippolytus and felt that the Song should be reserved for the spiritually mature and that studying it might be harmful for the novice.

* Euripides, Andromache, in Euripides: Children of Heracles, Hippolytus, Andromache, Hecuba, with an English translation by David Kovacs.

While these two were still in their infancy, Phaedra fell in love with Hippolytus, Theseus's son by Hippolyta.

According to some versions of the story, Hippolytus had scorned Aphrodite to become a devotee of Artemis, so Aphrodite made Phaedra fall in love with him as punishment.

To ensure that she would die with dignity, Phaedra wrote to Theseus on a tablet claiming that Hippolytus had raped her before hanging herself.

A cult grew up around Hippolytus, associated with the cult of Aphrodite.

According to Hippolytus, they all belonged to the " Seventy Disciples " who were sent out by Jesus to saturate Judea with the gospel ( Luke 10: 1ff .).

Hippolytus ( AD 170 – 236 ), considered to have been one of the most learned Christian historians, puts names to the seventy disciples whom Jesus sent forth in Luke 10, includes Aristobulus of Romans 16: 10 with Joseph, and states that he ended up becoming a pastor in Britain.

His feast day was 19 November, but he is now celebrated jointly with Hippolytus on 13 August.

* Hippolytus: Slain by his grandnephew Hermes with his sword and wearing the cap of invisibility.

Zeus killed Asclepius with a thunderbolt because he raised Hippolytus from the dead and accepted gold for it.

( According to different traditions, Aegialeia was living in adultery with Hippolytus, Cometes or Cyllabarus.

Though married to Theseus, Phaedra fell in love with Hippolytus, Theseus ' son born by either Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, or Antiope, her sister.

According to some sources, Hippolytus had spurned Aphrodite to remain a steadfast and virginal devotee of Artemis, and Aphrodite made Phaedra fall in love with him as a punishment.

Later Hippolytus uses " learned " ( gnostikos ) of Cerinthus and the Ebionites, and Epiphanius applied " learned " ( gnostikos ) to specific groups.

Surviving traditions about Simon appear in anti-heretical texts, such as those of Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, Hippolytus, and Epiphanius, where he is often regarded as the source of all heresies.

It is now thought that later accounts of these " Ophites " by Pseudo-Tertullian, Philastrius and Epiphanius of Salamis are all dependent on the lost Syntagma of Hippolytus.

Apart from the sources directly dependent on Hippolytus ( Pseudo-Tertullian, Philastrius and Epiphanius ), Origen and Clement of Alexandria also mention the group.

Ophite teaching was, most likely, dying out in the days of Hippolytus ; in the time of Epiphanius it was not absolutely extinct, but the notices in his work would lead us to think of it as but the eccentric doctrine of some stray heretic here and there, and not to have counted many adherents.

By the 3rd century the doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary was well established and defended by Hippolytus, Eusebius and Epiphanius, important early Christian theologians.

Tertullian, Irenaeus, Hippolytus of Rome, Epiphanius, and Jerome ascribed the movement to a heretic named Ebion or Hebion ( Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics 33, On the Flesh of Christ 14. 18 .; Irenaeus Against Heretics 5. 1. 3 .; Hippolytus of Rome Refutation of All Heresies 7. 23.

For example, references can be found in the 3rd century writings of Hippolytus of Rome, who called Mary " the tabernacle exempt from defilement and corruption ," and the 4th century works of Athanasius, Epiphanius, Hilary, Didymus, Ambrose, Jerome, and Siricius continued the attestations to perpetual virginity-a trend that gathered pace in the next century.

She is noticed in several neighbouring passages of Epiphanius, who in part must be following the Compendium of Hippolytus, as is shown by comparison with Philaster ( c. 33 ), but also speaks from personal knowledge of the Ophitic sects specially called " Gnostici " ( i. 100 f .).

In briefly sketching this version of Basilidianism, which most likely rests on later or corrupt accounts, our authorities are fundamentally two, Irenaeus and the lost early treatise of Hippolytus ; both having much in common, and both being interwoven together in the report of Epiphanius.

The two fullest accounts, those of Irenaeus and Epiphanius, add by way of appendix another particular of the antecedent mythology ; a short notice on the same subject being likewise inserted parenthetically by Hippolytus.

One of the sources of Epiphanius, the lost Syntagma of Hippolytus of Rome, was also the source for Christian heresies before Noetus in Philaster's Catalogue of heresies.

According to Hippolytus, this view was inspired by the Pythagoreans, for whom the first thing that came into existence was referred to as the Monad, which begat the dyad, which begat the numbers, which begat the point, begetting lines, etc.

It was Simon of Cyrene that was crucified ; for Jesus exchanged forms with him on the way, and then, standing unseen opposite in Simon's form, mocked those who did the deed ( this is starkly contradicted by Hippolytus view of the Basilidians ).

Hippolytus of Rome states that the deacon Nicolas was the author of the heresy and the sect.

Hippolytus of Rome pictures the underworld ( Hades ) as a place where the righteous dead, awaiting in the bosom of Abraham their resurrection, rejoice at their future prospect, while the unrighteous are tormented at the sight of the " lake of unquenchable fire " into which they are destined to be cast.

26 ) by Hippolytus, who appears in these chapters to have followed the Exegetica of Basilides.

69, 73 f .) appears to follow partly Irenaeus, partly the lost Compendium of Hippolytus.

In later myths, Adonis had been related as a favorite of Aphrodite, and Aphrodite was responsible for the death of Hippolytus, who had been a favorite of Artemis.

Therefore, Artemis killed Adonis to avenge Hippolytus ’ s death.

According to Hippolytus of Rome ( Philosophumena, VII, xxiii ) Theodotus taught that Jesus was a man born of a virgin, according to the Council of Jerusalem, that he lived like other men, and was most pious ; but that at his baptism in the Jordan the " Christ " came down upon the man Jesus in the likeness of a dove.

At the beginning of the 3rd century, Hippolytus of Rome describes another feature of the ministry of a bishop, which is that of the " Spiritum primatus sacerdotii habere potestatem dimittere peccata ": the primate of sacrificial priesthood and the power to forgive sins.

Although many assume that the biblical Mark the Cousin of Barnabas ( Colossians 4: 10 ) is the same as John Mark ( Acts 12: 12, 25 ; 13: 5, 13 ; 15: 37 ) and Mark the Evangelist, the traditionally believed author of the Gospel of Mark, according to Hippolytus of Rome, the three " Mark " s are distinct persons.

There are two people named Barnabas among Hippolytus ' list of Seventy Disciples, one (# 13 ) became the bishop of Milan, the other (# 25 ) the bishop of Heraclea.

Most likely one of these two is the biblical Barnabas ; the first one is more likely, because the numbering by Hippolytus seems to indicate a level of significance.

Irenaeus, Tertullian, and Hippolytus were among the greatest early Christian apologists who engaged in critical analyses of unorthodox theology, Greco-Roman pagan religions, and Gnostic groups.

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.

Callixtus I is elected as the sixteenth pope, but is opposed by the theologian Hippolytus who accuses him of laxity and of being a Modalist, one who denies any distinction between the three persons of the Trinity.

In Hippolytus, speeches appear verbose and ungainly as if to underscore the limitations of language.

In the seventeenth century, Racine expressed admiration for Sophocles but was more influenced by Euripides ( e. g. Iphigenia at Aulis and Hippolytus were the models for his plays Iphigénie and Phèdre ).