The author of the Aeschines Lives is anonymous. The work, dated to the late antique period between the second and fifth centuries CE, is a biographical compilation concerning the fourth-century BCE Athenian orator Aeschines, not a work composed by him. No details about the compiler's identity survive.

The sole known work is Aeschines Lives, a prose biography in Koine Greek. Its extent, whether fragmentary or complete, is not detailed in standard references.

As a late antique biography, the work belongs to the tradition of ancient literary historiography. It potentially preserves anecdotes or details from earlier, now-lost sources about Aeschines' career, contributing to the orator's reception history, though its specific content and reliability are not evaluated in the major encyclopedic sources.