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]
*)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.
C6 BCE. See generally OCD(4) pp.83-4, under
Anaximenes(1).
[1]
alpha 1986.
[2]
pi 675.
[3] Something 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'.
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)
David Whitehead (added note, bibliography, keyword; cosmetics) on 13 May 2001@10:22:54.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 26 February 2012@05:42:49.
David Whitehead (expanded n.3) on 23 January 2014@07:08:15.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 30 July 2014@06:04:16.
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