ANAXIMENES, of Lampsacus (c. 38o-32o B.c.), Greek rhetorician and historian, was a favourite of Alexander the Great, whom he accompanied in his Persian campaigns. He wrote his tories of Greece and of Philip, and an epic on Alexander (frag ments in Muller, Scriptores Rerum Alexandri Magni). As a rhetorician, he was a determined opponent of Ioocrates and his school. The Rhetorica ad Alexandrum, usually included among the works of Aristotle, is now generally admitted to be by Anaximenes, although some consider it a much later production (edition by Spengel, 184 7) .
See P. Wendland, Anax. von Lampsakos (1905) ; see also RHETORIC.