Anaximenes (Ancient Greek: Ἀναξιμένης) may refer to:
Anaximenes of Lampsacus (4th century BC), Greek rhetorician and historian
Anaximenes of Miletus (6th century BC), Greek pre-Socratic philosopher
Anaximenes (crater), a lunar crater
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of Anaximenes' life and work, as all of his original texts are lost. Historians and philosophers have reconstructed information about Anaximenes by interpreting...
Anaximenes (Ancient Greek: Ἀναξιμένης) may refer to: Anaximenes of Lampsacus (4th century BC), Greek rhetorician and historian Anaximenes of Miletus (6th...
Ἀριστοκλῆς). His nephew (son of his sister), was also named Anaximenes and was a historian. Anaximenes was a pupil of Diogenes the Cynic and Zoilus and, like...
Timocrates of Lampsacus. Anaximenes of Lampsacus, a rhetorician and historian. His nephew (son of his sister), was also named Anaximenes and was a historian...
was composed of water; Anaximander, who believed it was apeiron; and Anaximenes, who believed it was air. This is considered as a permanent substance...
the very first, followed by Anaximander, who was followed in turn by Anaximenes. They have been dubbed the Milesian school. According to the Suda, Thales...
Thales of Miletus and later continued by his successors Anaximander and Anaximenes, were the first to attempt to explain natural phenomena without relying...
to find in his poem certain controversial allusions to the doctrine of Anaximenes and the Pythagoreans (fragment B 8, verse 24, and frag. B 4), and also...
"air in motion, breath, wind", is equivalent in the material monism of Anaximenes to aer (ἀήρ, "air") as the element from which all else originated. This...
with water, Anaximander with apeiron (lit. boundless or infinite), and Anaximenes with air. Heraclitus also thought the logos (lit. word, discourse, or...
are mentioned by Athenaeus, though neither survive – one composed by Anaximenes of Lampsacus and delivered by Euthias, the other composed by Aristogeiton...
substances, but could be transformed into them, and they into each other. Anaximenes (c. 586 – c. 526 BC) favored air, and Heraclitus (fl. c. 500 BC) championed...
succeeded Thales and became the second master of that school where he counted Anaximenes and, arguably, Pythagoras amongst his pupils. Little of his life and work...
Greece:According to Law "Three early Greek philosophers – Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes – are of particular interest. The manner in which these Milesian philosophers...
taken for granted, but as early as the 6th century BC, Greek philosopher Anaximenes of Miletus claimed that all things are made of air that is simply changed...
(and scientific) tradition, when Thales, followed by Anaximander and Anaximenes (known collectively, to modern scholars, as the Milesian school), began...
wet/dry). There was, according to Anaximander, a continual war of opposites. Anaximenes of Miletus, a student and successor of Anaximander, replaced this infinite...
generally believed to be the work of Anaximenes of Lampsacus. Quintilian seems to refer to this work under Anaximenes' name in Institutio Oratoria, as the...
natural philosophy. He was a contemporary of the philosophers Anaximander, Anaximenes, and the historian Hecataeus, all of whom lived in Miletus, across the...
the Macedonian state. Suda writes that Anaximenes of Lampsacus was one of Alexander's teachers, and that Anaximenes also accompanied Alexander on his campaigns...
that remained stable because it was the same distance from all things. Anaximenes of Miletus believed that "the Earth is flat and rides on air; in the same...
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