Anaximenes by Lampsakos

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Anaximenes of Lampsakos was an ancient Greek rhetorician and historian . He lived in the second half of the 4th century BC. Chr.

Anaximenes, son of Aristocles, was a pupil of the Cynic Diogenes of Sinope . He is said to have been an opponent of Theopompus of Chios . He probably took part in Alexander the Great's campaign against the Persian Empire . He is said to have dissuaded Alexander from destroying Lampsakos because of alleged Persian friendliness.

Anaximenes wrote, among other things, accusation speeches and fictitious speeches as teaching aids. He was considered an excellent speaker, but a lack of depth was criticized even in ancient times. Anaximenes was probably the author of large parts of the probably in the 1st century BC. Compiled textbook on rhetoric (Rhetorica ad Alexandrum) , which for a long time was ascribed to Aristotle .

Anaximenes also wrote several historical works: a Greek story ( Hellenika ) in 12 books dating back to 362 BC. Was enough, a story about Alexander's father Philip II ( Philippika ) in at least 8 books and a work about Alexander. Only a few fragments of the historical works have survived. The number of books in the history of Alexander is not reliably recorded; According to Felix Jacoby, the work should have been extensive. Anaximenes seems to have portrayed Alexander in a very positive light.

According to some researchers, the Alexander story did not exert a major influence. The historical works of Anaximenes were certainly well known, for in Alexandria he was included in the canon of the ten most famous Greek historians.

expenditure

  • Manfred Fuhrmann : Anaximenis Ars rhetorica quae vulgo fertur Aristotelis Ad Alexandrum. Teubner, Leipzig 1966. 2nd edition Saur, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-598-71983-3 (basic text edition)
  • Mary Frances Williams: Anaximenes of Lampsakos (72). In: Brill's New Jacoby (with English translation, commentary and extensive literature references).

literature

  • Julius Brzoska : Anaximenes 3 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2086-2098 (outdated).
  • Lionel Pearson: The Lost Histories of Alexander the Great (= Philological Monographs No. 20) American Philological Association, New York 1960, pp. 243-245.
  • Manfred Fuhrmann: Investigations into the text history of the pseudo-Aristotelian Alexander rhetoric (the "technē" of Anaximenes by Lampsakos). Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz 1965 (= treatises of the humanities and social sciences class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Born in 1964, No. 7).
  • Klaus Meister : The Greek historiography. From the beginning to the end of Hellenism. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1990, ISBN 3-17-010264-8 , pp. 93f.
  • Waldemar Heckel : Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great. Prosopography of Alexander's Empire. Blackwell, Oxford et al. 2006, ISBN 1-4051-1210-7 , p. 27.
  • Carlo Scardino: Historiography. In: Bernhard Zimmermann , Antonios Rengakos (Hrsg.): Handbook of the Greek literature of antiquity. Vol. 2. CH Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-61818-5 , pp. 617-677, here: 635 f. (see also pp. 756–761 Evangelos Alexiou on the Rhetorica ad Alexandrum )

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Remarks

  1. ↑ The Suda ( Alpha 1989 ) statement that Anaximenes was a teacher of Alexander is incorrect. See Heckel (2006), p. 27.
  2. ↑ Brzoska (1894), col. 2097-2098.
  3. ^ The Fragments of the Greek Historians , No. 72.
  4. ↑ Felix Jacoby : The Alexander story of Anaximenes . In: Hermes 58 (1923), pp. 457f.
  5. ↑ Meister (1990), p. 94.
  6. ^ Brzoska (1894), col. 2096.
personal data
SURNAME Anaximenes by Lampsakos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek historian and rhetorician
DATE OF BIRTH around 380 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH around 320 BC Chr.