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Anaximenes of Lampsacus

4th-century BC Greek rhetorician and historian

Anaximenes of Lampsacus (; Ancient Greek: Ἀναξιμένης ὁ Λαμψακηνός; c. 380 – 320 BC) was a Greekrhetorician and historian. He was one of the teachers of Alexander the Great and accompanied him on his campaigns.^[1]

Family

His father was named Aristocles (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοκλῆς).^[1] His nephew (son of his sister), was also named Anaximenes and was a historian.^[2]

Rhetorical works

Anaximenes was a pupil of Diogenes the Cynic^[1] and Zoilus^[3] and, like his teacher, wrote a work on Homer. As a rhetorician, he was a determined opponent of Isocrates and his school.^[4] He is generally regarded as the author of the Rhetoric to Alexander, an Art of Rhetoric included in the traditional corpus of Aristotle's works. Quintilian seems to refer to this work under Anaximenes' name in Institutio Oratoria3.4.9, as the Italian Renaissance philologist Piero Vettori first recognized. This attribution has, however, been

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Anaxi'menes

（Ἀναξιμένης) of LAMPSACUS, son of Aristocles, and pupil of Zoilus and Diogenes the Cynic. He was a contemporary of Alexander the Great, whom he is said to have instructed, and whom he accompanied on his Asiatic expedition. (Suidas, s.v. Eudoc. p. 51; comp. D. L. 5.10; Diod. 15.76.) A pretty anecdote is related by Pausanias (6.18.2) and Suidas, about the manner in which he saved his native town from the wrath of Alexanderfor having espoused the cause of the Persians. His grateful fellow-citizens rewarded him with a statue at Olympia.

Works

Anaximenes wrote three historical works:

1. History of Philip of Macedon

A history of Philip of Macedonia, which consisted at least of eight books. (Harpocrat. s. v.Καβύλη, Ἁλόννησος; Eustratius. ad Aristot. Eth.3.8.)

2. A history of Alexander the Great.

D. L. 2.3; Harpocrat. s. v.Ἀλκίμαχος, who quotes the 2nd book of it.

3. A history of Greece

A history of Greece, which Pausanias (6.18.2) calls τὰἐνἝλλησινἀρχαῖα, which, however, is more commonly called πρῶταιἱστορίαιor πρώτηἱστορία. (Athen. 6.231; Diod. 15.8
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Anaximenes of Miletus
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