Anaximenes of Lampsacus (fl. 380-320 B.C.), 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, 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,
usually included among the works of
Aristotle, is now
generally admitted to be by Anaximenes, although some consider
it a much later production (edition by Spengel, 1847).
See P. Wendland, Anax. von Lampsakos (1905); also RHETORIC.
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