Anaximenes

Family: Lampsacus · Role: historian and sophist · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 18

In Book 6, Chapter 18, Anaximenes of Lampsacus is described as a historian who wrote about Greek antiquities, Philip and Alexander. When he went to Alexander to seek a pardon for Lampsacus, Alexander had sworn to do the opposite of what Anaximenes asked. Anaximenes outwitted him, and Alexander “very unwillingly pardoned the people of Lampsacus.”

After quarrelling with Theopompus, Anaximenes falsely attributed an abusive book to him, stirring up “general odium” against Theopompus throughout Greece.

Relationship record

Life events

• Anaximenes outwitted Alexander, causing him to pardon the people of Lampsacus.(Book 6 · Chapter 18 · 📍 Lampsacus)
  • With: Alexander (son of Philip)
  • “Alexander having no contrivance to meet his cunning, and being compelled by his oath, very unwillingly pardoned the people of Lampsacus.”
• Anaximenes falsely attributed an abusive book to Theopompus, provoking widespread hatred against him.(Book 6 · Chapter 18 · 📍 Greece)
  • With: Theopompus
  • “general odium was stirred up throughout Greece against Theopompus.”

Book 6 · Chapter 18

• with Philip (son of Amyntas) (Anaximenes wrote about Philip.) “Here too I found the statue of Anaximenes, who wrote a History of all Antiquities in Greece, and of the exploits of Philip the son of Amyntas, and afterwards of Alexander.”
• with Alexander (son of Philip) (Anaximenes approached Alexander as a supplicant.) “And Anaximenes went to Alexander, who had learnt the motive of his errand, and had sworn they say by all the gods that he would do exactly contrary to what he entreated.”
• rivals with Theopompus “And having a quarrel with Theopompus, the son of Damasistratus, he wrote a book full of abuse against the Athenians and Lacedæmonians and Thebans.”
• enemies with Theopompus “And having a quarrel with Theopompus, the son of Damasistratus, he wrote a book full of abuse against the Athenians and Lacedæmonians and Thebans.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.