Anaximenes of Lampsacus

Anaximĕnes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Greek sophist of Lampsacus, a favourite of Philip of Macedon and Alexander the Great. He composed orations and historical works, some treating of the actions of those two princes. Of these but little remains. On the other hand, he is the author of the Rhetoric dedicated to Alexander, the earliest extant work of this kind, which was once included ...

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Anaximenes of Lampsacus in Wikipedia

Anaximenes (Ancient Greek: Ἀναξιμένης) of Lampsacus (c. 380 – 320 BC) was a Greek rhetorician and historian. Rhetorical works 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. He is generally regarded as the author of the Rhetoric to Alexand...

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