Anaxandrides
historical figure · 5 works · 5 mentions · 11 anchored passages
Anaxandrides son of Leon · Anaxandrides the Delphian
in the texts
Nicomachean Ethics
A comic poet whose satirical line is quoted to illustrate the condition of the unrestrained man.
In fact the unrestrained man resembles a state which passes all the proper enactments, and has good laws, but which never keeps its laws:
Rhetoric
Comic poet, quoted for witty verses and named as author of the comedy The Old Man's Folly.
It is the same with the celebrated verse of Anaxandrides, It is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death;
This is what Philemon the actor did in The Old Man's Folly of Anaxandrides, when he says Rhadamanthus and Palamedes, and when he repeats the word I in the prologue to The Pious.
And the iambic of Anaxandrides, on girls who were slow to marry, My daughters are past the time of marriage.
Vitae philosophorum
Comic poet whose play Theseus contains a joke referencing Plato.
He was eating olives exactly like Plato.
The Histories
Former Spartan king whose childlessness with his first wife leads the Ephors to compel an unprecedented second marriage, producing rival sons.
She gave birth first to Dorieus, then straightway to Leonidas, and right after him to Cleombrotus.
At Sparta, Anaxandrides the son of Leon, who had been king, was now no longer alive but was dead, and Cleomenes son of Anaxandrides held the royal power.
Then the Ephors and Elders took counsel, and placed this proposal before Anaxandrides:
Lysander
Delphian writer cited for a claim about a silver deposit attributed to Lysander.
Moreover, Anaxandrides the Delphian writes that a deposit of Lysander’s was also stored there, consisting of a talent of silver, and fifty-two minas, and eleven staters besides;