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Encyclopedia Britannica



LYSANIAS

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 182 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LUP-MAL
LYSANIAS , tetrarch of Abilene (see AB1LA), according to Luke iii. 1, in the time of John the Baptist. The only Lysanias mentioned in profane history as exercising authority in this
district
  was executed in 36 B.C. by M. Antonius (Mark Antony). This Lysanias was the son of
Ptolemy
  Mennaeus, the ruler of an independent state, of which Abilene formed only a small portion. According to Josephus (Ant. xix. 5, 1) the emperor
Claudius
  in A.D. 42 confirmed
Agrippa
  I. in the possession of " Abila of Lysanias " already bestowed upon him by Caligula, elsewhere described as " Abila, which had formed the tetrarchy of Lysanias." It is argued that this cannot refer to the Lysanias executed by M. Antonius, since his paternal
inheritance
 , even allowing for some curtailment by Pompey, must have been of far greater extent. It is therefore assumed by some authorities that the Lysanias in Luke (A.D. 2829) is a younger Lysanias, tetrarch of Abilene only, one of the districts into which the
original
  kingdom was split up after the death of Lysanias I. This younger Lysanias may have been a son of the latter, and identical with, or the father of, the Claudian Lysanias. On the other hand, Josephus knows nothing of a younger Lysanias, and it is suggested by others that he really does refer to Lysanias I. The explanation given by M.. Krenkel (Josephus and Lucas,
Leipzig
 , 1894, p. 97) is that Josephus does not mean to imply that Abila was the only possession of Lysanias, and that he calls it the tetrarchy or kingdom of Lysanias because it was the last remnant of the domain of Lysanias which remained under direct Roman administration until the time of
Agrippa
 . The expression was borrowed from Josephus by Luke, who wrongly imagined that Lysanias I. had ruled almost up to the time of the bestowal of his tetrarchy upon Agrippa, and therefore to the days of John the Baptist. Two
inscriptions
  are adduced as evidence for the existence of a younger LysaniasBockh, C.I.G.' 4521 and 4523. The former is inconclusive, and in the latter the
reading
  Avv[avcov] is entirely conjectural; the name might equally well be Lysimachus or Lysias.
See E. Schiirer, Geschichte des ji dischen Volkes (3rd ed., 1901), i. p. 712; and (especially on the inscriptional evidence) E.
Renan
 ,
Memoire sur la dynastic des Lysanias d'Abilene " in Memoires de l'institut imperial de France (xxvi., 1870); also P. W. Schmiedel in the Encyclopaedia_Biblica, s.v.


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