Lysias biography
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Lysias
Lysias (c. 445-c. 380 BC) was an Athenian metic- a formal resident of Athens but not a full Athenian citizen. His family's prosperity came from a shield factory, which they operated until, during the oligarchic revolution of 404-403, the Thirty Tyrants killed Lysias’ brother Polemarchus and confiscated their property. When the democrats regained power, Lysias accused one of the Thirty, Eratosthenes, of his brother's murder. As a metic, Lysias could not appear in court himself, but the success of Against Eratosthenes(12), his longest and best known speech, led to a profitable career as a logographer, writing speeches for others. More than 30 of these, covering a wide range of cases, survive in whole or in part, though the authenticity of some is doubted. As an orator Lysias is particularly known for his ethopoiia, or “creation of character” and his prose style, which was celebrated for its simple clarity and vividness, especially in the narrative parts of his speeches. Later rhetoricians down through Roman times cited Lysias as the outstanding representative of a pure Attic prose style.
Life
Ancient scholars give the traditional date of Lysias’ birth as 459 BC, but most recent scholars accept a later date on the basis of information in Plato's Phaedrusand [Dem.]•
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Lysias
Athenian orator (c. 445 – c. 380 BC)
For other people named Lysias, see Lysias (disambiguation).
Lysias (; Greek: Λυσίας; c. 445 – c. 380 BC) was a logographer (speech writer) in ancient Greece. He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian Canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the third century BC.
Life
[edit]According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the author of the life ascribed to Plutarch, Lysias was born in 459 BC, which would accord with a tradition that Lysias reached, or passed, the age of eighty. 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. Modern critics, in general, place his birth later, c. 445 BC, and place the trip to Thurii around 430 BC.[1]
Cephalus, his father, was a native of Syracuse, and on the invitation of Pericles had settled at Athens. The opening scene of Plato's Republic is set at the house of Cephalus' eldest son, Polemarchus, in Piraeus. The tone of the picture warrants the inference that the Sicilian family were well known to Plato, and that their houses must often have been hospitable to such gatherings. Further, Plato's Pha