Anaximenes of Lampsacus
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 ("Address 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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