Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Anaximenes of Lampsacus

ANAXIMENES, a Greek historian and rhetorician, was born at Lampascus, in Asia Minor, in the 4th century B.C. He accompanied Alexander, whom he is said to have instructed in rhetoric, on his expedition against Persia. He wrote a history of Philip and of Alexander, and likewise twelve books on the early history of Greece, but only a very few fragments of those exist. The treatise Ῥητορικ πρὸς Άλέξανδρον, usually included among the works of Aristotle, has been ascribed by many critics to Anaximenes, on grounds that are generally admitted to be conclusive.