ANAXIMENES, a Greek historian and rhetorician, was born at Lampsacus about 580 years before Christ. Some writers ascribe to him the Treatise on the Principles of Rhetoric, which bears the name of Aristotle; and it is reported that Philip of Macedon invited him to his court to instruct his son Alexander in that science. He attended Alexander in his expedition against Persia. The history of Philip, of Alexander, and likewise twelve books
on the early history of Greece, were the productions of his pen, but none of them has been preserved.