Lesbonax (Rhetorician)

Lesbonax was a Greek rhetorician known for a small set of declamatory speeches preserved under his name, including protreptic addresses urging an audience to action (the surviving "Protrepticus" pieces are exhortations to battle in the manner of a general's harangue). His date is uncertain; he is usually placed in the early Roman imperial period, perhaps the first century CE, though some scholars connect or confuse him with other bearers of the name. Little reliable detail about his life survives, and even the authenticity and unity of the speeches attributed to him are debated.