biography
pronunciation:
[lisias]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.445–c.380 BC)
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| biography:
| Greek orator, the son of a rich Syracusan. Educated at Thurii in Italy, he settled in Athens c.440 BC. The Thirty Tyrants in 404 BC stripped him and his brother Polemarchus of their wealth, and killed Polemarchus. The first use to which Lysias put his eloquence was in ‘Against Eratosthenes’ to prosecute the tyrant chiefly to blame for his brother's murder. He then practised with success as a writer of speeches for litigants. His family home in Athens is portrayed in Plato's Republic. |
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