He was the father of orator Lysias, philosopher Polemarchus and Euthydemus.

After the Thirty had been overthrown in a coup that killed Critias, Lysias accused Eratosthenes of the murder of Lysias ' brother Polemarchus.

Lysias and his elder brother Polemarchus, with three hundred other persons, were accused of Atticizing.

Polemarchus occupied a house in Athens itself, Lysias another in the Piraeus, near which was their shield manufactory, employing a hundred and twenty skilled slaves.

Lysias and Polemarchus were on a list of ten singled out to be the first victims.

Among them were two celebrated names – Herodotus the historian, and the orator Lysias, both of whom appear to have formed part of the original colony.

Theramenes ' reputation has undergone a dramatic shift since the 19th century, when Xenophon's and Lysias ' unfavorable accounts were widely accepted, and Theramenes was execrated as a turncoat and blamed for instigating the execution of the generals after Arginusae.

The terms that best render political opposites at the time were “ Oligarch ” and “ Democratic .” Politics as described by Lysias meant that “ no human being is by nature oligarchical or democratic, but whatever constitution brings advantage to an individual is the one he would like to see established .” This passage illustrates that whatever ideology a person chose to support is not based on their core beliefs or principles.

In a highly unorthodox arrangement, the fleet was commanded collaboratively by eight generals ; these were Aristocrates, Aristogenes, Diomedon, Erasinides, Lysias, Pericles, Protomachus, and Thrasyllus.

Socrates then admits that he thought both of the preceding speeches were terrible, saying Lysias ' repeated itself numerous times, seemed uninterested in its subject, and seemed to be showing off.

While not signs of an alliance, they still suggest that Lysias ' and Antialcidas ' reigns were adjacent.

During the persecution under Diocletian, Cosmas and Damian were arrested by order of the Prefect of Cilicia, one Lysias who is otherwise unknown, who ordered them under torture to recant.

One of the most famous men who escaped from Athens during this reign of terror was the wealthy Lysias, who was mentioned in Plato's Republic.

Socrates, rather than simply listing reasons as Lysias had done, begins by explaining that while all men desire beauty, some are in love and some are not.

Essentially, Claudius Lysias is " a high-ranking military officer in charge " of anywhere from 600 to 1, 000 men, and this appears to be the case for it is said that his command was over a " cohort " ( σπειρα, speira ) in Jerusalem which is " the tenth part of a Roman legion having about 600 men " ().

It takes six cohorts to make up a legion, and each legion had six tribunes with a thousand men (" soldiers and centurions " ) under his command if the cohort was full ; consequently, Claudius Lysias was a part of a larger military force.

Consequently, it appears that Lysias suspects him of being " the Egyptian " who " stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand men of the Assassins out into the wilderness " ( Acts 21. 38 ).

Dissension among the Sanhedrin towards Paul arises again, and causes Claudius Lysias to order his men to take Paul to the safety of the Antonian barracks ( Acts 22. 30-23. 10 ).

A more authentic tradition represents Lysias as having spoken his own Olympiacus at the Olympic festival of 388 BC, to which Dionysius I of Syracuse had sent a magnificent embassy.

Greek rhetoric began in the grand style ; then Lysias set an exquisite pattern of the plain ; and Demosthenes might be considered as having effected an almost ideal compromise.

Lusitanian mythology traditionally makes Elishah ( under the name Lysias / Lísias ) an ancestor and predecessor of Lusus ( Elisha being older, having arrived accompanying his uncle Tubal founding Portalegre in 1900 BC under Iberian king Brigo ) Lysias ' own tomb claims that he was the first " cultivator " of Lusitania.

A proposed resolution of these conflicting versions involves considering an early Lysias, Elishah ( maybe the founder of Portalegre in 1900 BC ) and Lusus ( having as mortal father king Siceleo of Iberia, grandson of Atlante / Atlas, founder of Atlantis, to be a possible descendant of Elishah, and possibly having Bacchus as his real and divine father ) as coming in between this and another Lysias son of Bacchus ( who in this version is clearly the son of Semele who conquered Iberia, not the son of Jupiter and Io who conquered India or the son of Jupiter and Proserpina who was an agrarian and herding culture hero ), who was of a different cast but with the similarity of name to the above claimed be their reincarnation and became the new separate king of the Lusitanians since Lusus.

Although acknowledging Paul's innocence, Claudius Lysias gave the impression that he had rescued Paul because of having learned that the apostle was a Roman, whereas in reality he had violated Paul's citizenship rights by having him bound and even ordering that he be examined under scourgings.

A 4th century BC Greek writer from Alexandria, Egypt, Sopater, quoted the lawyer Lysias, who had referred to a trial in Athens in which a man named Antigene accused his wife of having deprived him of a son by having an abortion.

Judas Maccabeus lays siege to the fortress and in response, the Seleucid general and regent to the young Seleucid king Antiochus V, Lysias, approaches Jerusalem and besieges Beth-zechariah, 25 kilometres from the city.

* With the aid of the Greek statesman and historian Polybius, the son of the former Seleucid king Seleucus IV Philopator, Demetrius escapes from Rome, where he has been held as a hostage for many years, and returns to Syria to claim the throne from his nephew Antiochus V. In the resulting dispute, Antiochus V and his regent, Lysias, are overthrown and put to death.

Aristophanes, in The Frogs, pokes fun at Theramenes ' ability to extricate himself from tight spots, but delivers none of the scathing rebukes one would expect for a politician whose role in the shocking events after Arginusae had been regarded as particularly blameworthy, and modern scholars have seen in this a more accurate depiction of how Theramenes was perceived in his time ; Lysias, meanwhile, who mercilessly attacks Theramenes on many counts, has nothing negative to say about the aftermath of Arginusae.

Lysias skirted Judea as he had done in his first campaign, entering it from the south, and besieged Beth-Zur.

Meanwhile, Demetrius I Soter, son of Seleucus IV Philopator and nephew of the late Antiochus IV Epiphanes, fled from Rome in defiance of the Roman Senate, arrived in Assyria, captured and killed Lysias and Antiochus Eupator, and usurped the throne.

This date was evidently obtained by reckoning back from the foundation of Thurii ( 444 BC ), since there was a tradition that Lysias had gone there at the age of fifteen.

Further, Plato's Phaedrus opens with Phaedrus coming from conversation with Lysias at the house of Epicrates of Athens: he meets Socrates, with whom he will read and discuss the speech of Lysias he heard.

Lysias lifted up his voice to denounce Dionysius as, next to Artaxerxes, the worst enemy of Hellas, and to impress upon the assembled Greeks that one of their foremost duties was to deliver Sicily from a hateful oppression.

Three fragmentary ones have come down under the name of Lysias ; one hundred and twenty-seven more, now lost, are known from smaller fragments or from titles.

Phaedrus has just come from the home of Epicrates of Athens, where Lysias, son of Cephalus, has given a speech on love.

With an army of about 50, 000 infantry and thirty war elephants, along with cavalry and chariots, Lysias approached Jerusalem from the south and besieged Beth-zur, eighteen miles from the city.

In addition to these labours of the chair, he found time to translate portions of Aristotle, Plutarch, Xenophon and Lysias from the Greek.

The Commission is also actively engaged in the PAU series entitled Library of Translations from Ancient Literature, in which there have appeared so far editions of Statius ’ s Thebais, Lucan ’ s Bellum Civile, Lysias ’ s Speeches and Apollonius Dyskolos ’ s Essay on Syntax and Andokides ’ s Speeches.

After Paul the Apostle was arrested in Jerusalem and rescued from a plot against his life, the local Roman chiliarch Claudius Lysias transferred him to Caesarea, where he stood trial before Felix.

Lysias was able to escape from the house of Damnippus, where Theognis was guarding other aristocrats rounded up by the Thirty.

However, such a speculation is uncertain especially considering a minimum of two years from when Claudius Lysias sent Paul to the Procurator Marcus Antonius Felix in c. AD 57 / 58, to within the first few months of the new Procurator Porcius Festus who rules from AD 60-62 ().

Upon reaching their own kingdom, Lysias and Antiochus V found Philip in control of the capital Antiochia, but they defeated him and retook the city and kingdom.