Works
Zacharias composed several works in Greek, among which an Ecclesiastical history that was probably completed towards the end of the 5th century. The document, dedicated to Eupraxius, a dignitary, contains valuable historical material and describes the time period from 451 to 491. It was used by Evagrius Scholasticus for his own history. The original is lost, but a truncated and revised Syrian version has been preserved, as a Monophysite monk from Amida, now known as Pseudo-Zacharias Rhetor, incorporated it in his 12-volume compilation, Historia Miscellanea, of ecclesiastical histories (volumes 3-6). Zacharias also composed three biographies of Monophysitic clergymen that he had met personally: the above-mentioned Severus, Peter the Iberian and the Egyptian monk Isaiah the Younger. The biographies have been preserved with varying quality. Zacharias also wrote several polemic works, e.g. against the philosopher Ammonius Hermiae and against the Manichaeans.
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