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Hippolytus has long been considered an early Christian martyr, bishop of Rome, even an anti-pope, and a prolific writer, who left to the posterity a large corpus of writings of various nature. Some of these writings are now extant in their entirety or in a fragmented form; others have recently been recovered or identified as Hippolytan. It is clear, however, that the state of affairs is hardly that simple and is poorly supported by the sources. As a result, a number of authorship and provenance hypotheses have been introduced to solve the problem. Who was Hippolytus and in which early Christian community did he flourish? The paper comments upon and responds to the recent advances to the problem, as outlined in Cerrato J.A. Hippolytus between East and West. The Commentaries and the Provenance of the Corpus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.