Zosimos

Zosimos is otherwise little attested and is known chiefly as a recipient of letters from Isidore of Pelusium, the ascetic and biblical exegete who wrote some two thousand brief letters of spiritual and scriptural counsel from a monastery near Pelusium in the eastern Nile Delta during the first half of the fifth century AD. Isidore addressed correspondents of varied station - monks, clergy, lay officials, and laymen - and a figure named simply Zosimos cannot be securely identified beyond this correspondence. He was probably a cleric, monk, or member of the local Egyptian Christian community active in the Pelusium region in the early-to-mid fifth century, but no specific dates, offices, or events can be assigned to him with confidence.