Anaximenes of Lampsacus

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Anaximenes of Lampsacus (Ancient Greek: ?????�???? ? ??�???????) (c.?380 � 320 BC)
was a Greek rhetorician and historian.

Contents [hide]
1 Rhetorical works
2 Historical works
3 Notes
4 References
5 Editions and translations
Rhetorical works[edit]
Anaximenes was a pupil of Zoilus[1] and, like his teacher, wrote a work on Homer.
As a rhetorician, he was a determined opponent of Isocrates and his school.[2] 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 Oratoria 3.4.9, as the
Italian Renaissance philologist Piero Vettori first recognized. This attribution
has, however, been disputed by some scholars.

The hypothesis to Isocrates' Helen mentions that Anaximenes, too, had written a
Helen, "though it is more a defense speech (apologia) than an encomium," and
concludes that he was "the man who has written about Helen" to whom Isocrates
refers (Isoc. Helen 14). Jebb entertained the possibility that this work survives
in the form of the Encomium of Helen ascribed to Gorgias: "It appears not
improbable that Anaximenes may have been the real author of the work ascribed to
Gorgias."[3]

According to Pausanias (6.18.6), Anaximenes was "the first who practised the art of
speaking extemporaneously." He also worked as a logographer, having written the
speech prosecuting Phryne according to Diodorus Periegetes (quoted by Athenaeus
XIII.591e). The "ethical" fragments preserved in Stobaeus' Florilegium may
represent "some philosophical book."[4]

Historical works[edit]
Anaximenes wrote a history of Greece in twelve books, stretching from the gods'
origins to the death of Epaminondas at the Battle of Mantinea (Hellenica, Ancient
Greek: ?????? ????????), and a history of Philip of Macedon (Philippica). He was a
favorite of Alexander the Great, whom he accompanied in his Persian campaigns,[2]
and wrote a third historical work on Alexander (however, Pausanias 6.18.6 expresses
doubt about his authorship of an epic poem on Alexander). He was one of the eight
exemplary historiographers included in the Alexandrian canon.

Didymus reports that the work transmitted as speech 11 of Demosthenes (Against the
Letter of Philip) could be found in almost identical form in Book 7 of Anaximenes'
Philippica, and many scholars regard the work as a historiographic composition by
Anaximenes.[5] The Letter of Philip (speech 12) to which speech 11 seems to respond
may also be by Anaximenes, or it may be an authentic letter by Philip, perhaps
written with the aid of his advisers.[5] The more ambitious theory of Wilhelm
Nitsche, which assigned to Anaximenes a larger part of the Demosthenic corpus
(speeches 10-13 and 25, letters 1-4, proems), can be rejected.[6]

Anaximenes was hostile to Theopompus, whom he sought to discredit with a libelous

parody, Trikaranos, published in Theopompus' style and under his name, attacking
Athens, Sparta, and Thebes.[4]

Plutarch criticizes Anaximenes, together with Theopompus and Ephorus, for the
"rhetorical effects and grand periods" these historians implausibly gave to men in
the midst of urgent battlefield circumstances (Praecepta gerendae reipublicae
803b).

Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ D.A. Russell, "Anaximenes (2)," Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed.,
rev., 2003.
^ Jump up to: a b One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a
publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Anaximenes".
Encyclopadia Britannica. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 944.
Jump up ^ R.C. Jebb, The Attic Orators, London, 1893, vol. II, p. 98.
^ Jump up to: a b J.P. Mahaffy, The Prose Writers from Isocrates to Aristotle,
London, 1904, pp. 38-41.
^ Jump up to: a b Raphael Sealey, Demosthenes in His Time, Oxford University Press,
1993, pp. 239f.
Jump up ^ Jacoby, commentary on Anaximenes in FGrHist.
References[edit]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith,
William, ed. (1870). "article name needed". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography
and Mythology.
Editions and translations[edit]
Art of Rhetoric
edited by Immanuel Bekker, Oxford 1837 (online)
Anaximenis ars rhetorica, L. Spengel (ed.), Leipzig, Vergsbureau, 1847.
Rhetores Graeci, L. Spengel (ed.), Lipsiae, sumptibus et typis B. G. Teubneri,
1853, vol. 1 pp. 169-242.
edited by Manfred Fuhrmann, Bibliotheca Teubneriana, Leipzig, 1966, 2nd ed. 2000,
ISBN 3-598-71983-3
edited by Pierre Chiron, Collection Bud�, with French translation, Paris, 2002,
ISBN 2-251-00498-X
anonymous translation, London, 1686 (online)
translated by E.S. Forster, Oxford, 1924 (online, beginning on p. 231)
Fragments
Karl M�ller, appendix to 1846 Didot edition of Arrian, Anabasis et Indica (online)
Felix Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, no. 72, with commentary in
German
Ludwig Radermacher, Artium Scriptores, Vienna, 1951, pp. 200�202 (rhetorical
fragments only, adding Philodemus' Rhetorica, which accounts for three of the nine
fragments printed)
Authority control
WorldCat Identities VIAF: 87346566 LCCN: n84134246 ISNI: 0000 0001 1579 4286 GND:
119160234 SUDOC: 033094071 BNF: cb123995351 (data)
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