Anaximenes of Lampsacus (fl. 380-320 BC), Greek rhetorician and historian, was a favourite of
Alexander the Great, whom he accompanied in his Persian campaigns. He wrote histories of
Greece and of [Philip of Macedon]
?, and an epic on Alexander (fragments in Muller,
Scriptores Rerum Alexandri Magni.) As a rhetorician, he was a determined opponent of
Isocrates
? and his school. The
Rhetorica ad Alexandrum ("Rhetoric to Alexander"), traditionally included among the works of
Aristotle, is now generally admitted to be by Anaximenes, although some consider it a much later production.
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