ANAXIMENES, a Greek historian and rhetorician, was born at Lampsacus, a city of Mysia in Asia Minor, in the fourth century B.C. 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 only a very few fragments exist.