Editing Anaximenes of Lampsacus (section)

==Rhetorical works==
Anaximenes was a pupil of [[Diogenes the Cynic]]<ref name="Suda">{{cite web| url = https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/1989| title = Suda, § al.1989}}</ref> and [[Zoilus]]<ref name=OCD>D.A. Russell, "Anaximenes (2)," ''[[Oxford Classical Dictionary]]'', 3rd ed., rev., 2003.</ref> and, like his teacher, wrote a work on [[Homer]]. As a rhetorician, he was a determined opponent of [[Isocrates]] and his school.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=1|wstitle=Anaximenes of Lampsacus|display=Anaximenes|volume=1|page=944}}</ref> He is generally regarded as the author of the ''[[Rhetoric to Alexander]]'', an ''Art of Rhetoric'' included in the traditional [[Corpus Aristotelicum|corpus]] of [[Aristotle]]'s works.  [[Quintilian]] seems to refer to this work under Anaximenes' name in ''Institutio Oratoria'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20110721082137/http://honeyl.public.iastate.edu/quintilian/3/chapter4.html#9 3.4.9], as the Italian Renaissance philologist [[Piero Vettori]] first recognized.  This attribution has, however, been disputed by some scholars.

The [https://books.google.com/books?id=UdyFQ4a9HOMC&pg=PR58 hypothesis] to Isocrates' ''Helen'' mentions that Anaximenes, too, had written a ''Helen'', "though it is more a defense speech (''apologia'') than an [[encomium]]," and concludes that he was "the man who has written about Helen" to whom Isocrates refers (Isoc. ''Helen'' 14).  [[Richard Claverhouse Jebb|Jebb]] entertained the possibility that this work survives in the form of the ''[[Encomium of Helen]]'' ascribed to [[Gorgias]]: "It appears not improbable that Anaximenes may have been the real author of the work ascribed to Gorgias."<ref>R.C. Jebb, ''The Attic Orators'', London, 1893, vol. II, p. 98.</ref>

According to [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] ([https://books.google.com/books?id=hsLNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA310 6.18.6]), Anaximenes was "the first who practised the art of speaking [[Extemporaneous speaking|extemporaneously]]."  He also worked as a [[Logographer (legal)|logographer]], having written the speech prosecuting [[Phryne]] according to Diodorus Periegetes (quoted by [[Athenaeus]] [http://www.attalus.org/old/athenaeus13c.html#591 XIII.591e]).  The "ethical" fragments preserved in [[Stobaeus]]' ''Florilegium'' may represent "some philosophical book."<ref name=Mahaffy/>

According to [[Suda]], no rhetor before Anaximenes had invented improvised speeches.<ref name="Suda"/>