Lysias (c. 440 BC – c. 380 BC) was an Ancient Greek orator. Lysias may also refer to:

  • Lysias (Syrian chancellor) (died 162 BC), chancellor of the Seleucid Empire, enemy of the Maccabees
  • Claudius Lysias, figure mentioned in the New Testament book of the Acts of the Apostles
  • Lysias Anicetus (reigned c. 130–120 BC), Indo-Greek king
  • Lysias of Tarsus, Priest of Hercules and tyrant of Tarsus in the 1st century BC
  • Lysias, one of the Athenian generals at the Battle of Arginusae (406 BC), during the Peloponnesian War
  • Lysias, Phrygia, a city and episcopal see in the Roman province of Phrygia Salutaris I

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