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.

Just when capitulation by the Maccabees seems imminent, Lysias has to withdraw when the commander-in-chief under the late Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes, Philip, rebels against him.

After a military victory in the Battle of Beth-Zecharia, and the killing of Eleazar, a brother of Judas Maccabaeus, Lysias was informed that Philip, ( a confidant of Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who had accompanied this previous king to conquer Mesopotamia, and had been entrusted prior to the death of the king with the upbringing of Antiochus V ), was returning to the capital with the other half of the Seleucid army.

However, just as capitulation seemed imminent, Lysias and Eupator had to withdraw when Antiochus Epiphanes's commander-in-chief Philip, whom the late ruler appointed regent before his death, rebelled against Lysias and was about to enter Antioch and seize power.

Taking advantage of bitter rivalry between Lysias and the recently deceased emperor's regent, Philip, Judas laid siege to the fortress in 162 BC.

However, Lysias did the unexpected and left Antioch and his dispute with Philip and took the field against the Maccabean army.

* Commentaries on the Attic Orators (, Perì tôn Attikôn rhētórōn ), which, however, only deal with Lysias, Isaeus, Isocrates and ( by way of supplement ) Dinarchus ;

Taylor is best known for his editions of some of the Greek orators, chiefly valuable for the notes on Attic law, e. g. Lysias ( 1739 ); Demosthenes Contra Leptinem ( 1741 ) and Contra Midiam ( 1743, with Lycurgus Contra Leocratem ), intended as specimens of a proposed edition, in five volumes, of the orations of Demosthenes, Aeschines, Dinarchus and Demades, of which only vols.

The besieged, who included not only Assyrians but also Hellenistic Jews, appealed for help to Lysias, who effectively became the regent of the young king Antiochus V Eupator after the death of Antiochus Epiphanes at the end of 164 BCE during the Parthian campaign.

" But Dionysus found Thrasymachus a second-rate orator beside the " incisive " and " charming " Lysias, because he left no forensic speeches to posterity, only handbooks and display-speeches.

* Lysias, the Athenian orator, on the occasion of the Olympiad, rebukes the Greeks for allowing themselves to be dominated by the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius I and by the barbarian Persians.

An example of the sort of attack this portrayal was intended to defend against can be found in two orations of Lysias, Against Eratosthenes and Against Agoratus ; there, Theramenes is portrayed as treasonous and self-interested, doing tremendous harm to the Athenian cause through his machinations.

( In Lysias 16, a law court speech, a man presumed to be a metic claims to be a citizen, but upon investigation — not by consulting official records but by questions asked at the cheese market — it transpires that he may well be a runaway slave, so the hostile account attests.

The desire to link famous names is illustrated by the ancient ascription to Lysias of a rhetorical exercise purporting to be a speech in which the captive general Nicias appealed for mercy to the Sicilians.

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

The Athenian political climate during Lysias ’ s life cannot be looked upon in modern terms.

During his later years Lysias — now probably a comparatively poor man owing to the rapacity of the tyrants and his own generosity to the Athenian exiles — appears as a hard-working member of a new profession — that of logographer, writer of speeches to be delivered in the law-courts.

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.

The vocabulary of Lysias is relatively simple and would later be regarded as a model of pure diction for Atticists.

Nor was it oratory alone to which Lysias rendered service ; his work had an important effect on all subsequent Greek prose, by showing how perfect elegance could be joined to plainness.

Saying that while Lysias is present, he would never allow himself to be used as a training partner for Phaedrus to practice his own speech making on, he asks Phaedrus to expose what he is holding under his cloak.

Socrates retorts that he is still in awe, and claims to be able to make an even better speech than Lysias on the same subject.

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.

Lysias apparently claimed to be a descendant of Demetrius, using a similar reverse of Heracles crowning himself, Demetrius ' epithet Invincible, and sometimes the elephant crown always worn by this king.

All this is debated ; Lusus has also been described as coming before Lysias, who would thus be too late to be Elishah or vaguely at the same time, or even the same individual under different names.

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.

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 " ().

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.

* 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.

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

He is helped by Lysias, the Athenian orator, in arguing the case against the oligarchy.

As a result, Lysias decides to propose a peaceful settlement which is accepted by the Maccabees.

Lysias is, however, seriously challenged by other Syrian generals and finds himself with a precarious hold on power.

* The Battle of Beth Zur is fought between Jewish rebel forces led by Judas Maccabeus and a Seleucid army led by the regent Lysias.

* The Battle of Emmaus takes place between the Jewish rebels led by Judas Maccabeus and Seleucid forces sent by Antiochus IV and led by Lysias and his general, Gorgias.

When Antiochus IV died in 163 BC., his 9-year-old boy son Antiochus V Eupator was made king by Lysias.

The general Lysias, who had been left in charge of Syria by Epiphanes, served as regent for the child, although he was challenged by other generals.

Slightly less known because they are more technical and legal are the orations by Antiphon, Demosthenes, Lysias, Isocrates and many others.

It is significant that this time the Syrian troops, under the leadership of the governor-general Lysias, took the southerly route, by way of Idumea.

* notes to the editions of Lysias by Taylor, of Maximus of Tyre by Davies, of Euripides's Hippolytus by Musgrave

Zoilus also wrote responses to works by Isocrates and Plato, who had attacked the style of Lysias of which he approved.

This force was dispatched by Lysias, whom Antiochus left as viceroy after departing on a campaign against the Parthians.