Lysanias
(Λυσανίας).
1. An Athenian of the deme Sphettus who, according to some accounts, was the father of Aeschines, the disciple of Socrates. (Plat. Apol. Socr. 100.22; D. L. 2.60.)
2. The father of Cephalus, one of the interlocutors in the republic of Plato. (Plat. Polit. p. 330b.)
3. A friend of Alexander the Great. In conjunction with Philotas he was sent to the coast, in charge of the booty taken after the victory over the Thracians, B. C. 335. (Arrian. 1.2.)
4. A Greek grammarian, a native of Cyrene. He is mentioned by Athenaeus as the author of a work on the Iambic poets (vii. p. 304 b, xiv. p. 620 c.). Suidas (s. v. Ἐρατοσφένης) speaks of him as the instructor of Eratosthenes. It is perhaps the same who is mentioned by Diogenes Laertius (6.23) as the son of Aeschrion.
5. Tetrarch of Abilene. He was put to death by Antony, to gratify Cleopatra, B. C. 36. (D. C. 49.32; J. AJ 15.4.1.)
6. A descendant of the last, who was tetrarch of Abilene, at the time when our Saviour entered upon his ministry (Luke, 3.1). He died probably about the time when the emperor Claudius ascended the throne. In the first year of the reign of this emperor the tetrarchy of Lysanias was conferred upon Herod Agrippa. (J. AJ 20.7.1.) [C.P.M]
a statuary, whose name occurs in an inscription on a base found in the island of Scio, Λισανιας Διονύσου τὸν Διόνυσον κατεσκεύασε, whence it appears that the artist's father was named Dionysus, and that the statue was one of the god Dionysus. The word κατεσκεύασε might indeed refer to the dedication of the statue; but there are other inscriptions, in which it undoubtedly designates the artist. Dionysus is frequently found as a man's name, as well as the commoner form, Dionysius. (Winckelman, Gesch. d. Knst, bk. 11.3.26, Meyer's note.) [P.S]
- a suitor for Cleisthenes' daughter: Hdt. 6.127