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Ἀναξιμένης · Anaximenes (α 1988) · Suda

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Ἀναξιμένης

Anaximenes

Translated by Jennifer Benedict12 May 2001Vetting: high5 revisions

biography
chronology
geography
history
military affairs
philosophy

3 notes · 34 words

Translation

Son of Eurystratos, Milesian, philosopher, student and successor of Anaximander the Milesian;¹ some said also of Parmenides.² He flourished in the 55th Olympiad during the capture of Sardis↗, when Cyrus the Persian deposed Croesus.³

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀναξιμένης, Εὐρυστράτου, Μιλήσιος, φιλόσοφος, μαθητὴς καὶ διάδοχος Ἀναξιμάνδρου τοῦ Μιλησίου· οἱ δὲ καὶ Παρμενίδου ἔφασαν. γέγονεν ἐν τῇ νεʹ Ὀλυμπιάδι ἐν τῇ Σάρδεων ἁλώσει, ὅτε Κῦρος ὁ Πέρσης Κροῖσον καθεῖλεν.

Betacode

*)anacime/nhs, *eu)rustra/tou, *milh/sios, filo/sofos, maqhth\s kai\ dia/doxos *)anacima/ndrou tou= *milhsi/ou: oi( de\ kai\ *parmeni/dou e)/fasan. ge/gonen e)n th=| ne# *)olumpia/di e)n th=| *sa/rdewn a(lw/sei, o(/te *ku=ros o( *pe/rshs *kroi=son kaqei=len.

Notes (3)

C6 BCE. See generally OCD(4) pp.83-4, under Anaximenes(1).
1alpha 1986. ↩
2pi 675. ↩
3Something is wrong here, either chronologically or textually: the 55th Olympiad was 560-557, the capture of Sardis 546. Adler (addenda) notes Daub's proposal to add oi( de/ before 'during ...', so that the sentence contains two different chronological alternatives. But another approach to the issue is suggested by Diogenes Laertius 2.3, who also synchronized Anaximenes' floruit with the fall of Sardis (and adds that Anaximenes died in the 63rd Olympiad, 528-525). That passage of D.L. is FGrH 244 F66 [66a BNJ], i.e. regarded as coming from Apollodorus of Athens, a polymath of the C2 BCE (OCD4 p.120 s.v. Apollodorus(6)), and indicates that it was Apollodorus who originally synchronised the acme of Anaximenes with the fall of Sardis. See on this Mosshammer (1976) 296, and further in Mosshammer (1979) 276-7 with n.5: 'That Anaximenes' floruit was associated with the fall of Sardis is confirmed, at least obliquely, by the article of the Suda on him. The Suda says that he flourished in the 55th Olympiad (560-557), at the time of the fall of Sardis, when Cyrus of Persian defeated Croesus. The sources of the Suda correctly transmitted the [Apollodoran] synchronism between the acme of Anaximenes and the fall of Sardis, making it clear that the reference is to Cyrus' defeat of Croesus. The sources assigned the wrong date to the synchronism, however, associating Anaximenes with the 55th Olympiad. Olympiad 55 was the universal chronographic date for the accession of Cyrus. The compiler of the Suda's report introduced the date for Cyrus instead of that of Croesus' fall'.

References

A.A. Mosshammer, 'Geometrical proportion and the chronological method of Apollodorus', Transactions of the American Philological Association 106 (1976) 291-306
A.A. Mosshammer, The Chronicle of Eusebius and the Greek Chronographic Tradition (Lewisburg PA, 1979)

Neighbouring entries

α1986ἈναξίμανδροςAnaximandros, Anaximander α1987ἈναξίμανδροςAnaximandros, Anaximander α1988ἈναξιμένηςAnaximenes α1989ἈναξιμένηςAnaximenes α1990Ἀναξιοπαθοῦντεςbeing indignant at unworthiness

Revision history5 revisions · last 22 Jan 2015

22 Jan 2015tweaked tr and expanded n.3, at the prompting of Dr Mary Frances Williams — David Whitehead
30 Jul 2014updated a ref — David Whitehead
23 Jan 2014expanded n.3 — David Whitehead
26 Feb 2012tweaking — David Whitehead
13 May 2001added note, bibliography, keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
12 May 2001Translated — Jennifer Benedict

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἀναξιμένης (Adler number alpha 1988), trans. Jennifer Benedict, 12 May 2001. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/1988

Translation by Jennifer Benedict for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗