Lysanias
Family: Chalcis · Role: governor of Chalcis · First appears: Book I, Chapter 13
In Book I, Chapter 13, Lysanias succeeded his father, Ptolemy, son of Menneus, in the government of Chalcis. In the same chapter, Barzapharnes prevailed upon him, as governor, by promising a thousand talents and five hundred women, to bring Antigonus back to his kingdom and turn Hyrcanus out of it.
By Book I, Chapter 20, Zenodorus had hired Lysanias’s house. In Chapter 22, Cleopatra was regarded as a shrewd woman, and Lysanias the king was taken off on her account.
Relationship record
Book I, Chapter 13
- parent: Ptolemy (son of Menneus) (Ptolemy is Lysanias's father.) “Lysanias had already succeeded upon the death of his father Ptolemy, the son of Menneus, in the government [of Chalcis]”
- with Barzapharnes (interaction) “he prevailed with the governor, by a promise of a thousand talents, and five hundred women, to bring back Antigonus to his kingdom, and to turn Hyrcanus out of it”
Book I, Chapter 20
- with Zenodorus (interaction) “Zenodorus, who had hired the house of Lysanias”
Book I, Chapter 22
- with Cleopatra (interaction) “because he considered with himself that Cleopatra was a shrewd woman, and that on her account Lysanias the king was taken off”
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Extracted from the original text of The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem. Made with Rho MD.