Anaximenes
historical figure · 7 works · 7 mentions · 7 anchored passages
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Lucullus
Pre-Socratic philosopher, pupil of Anaximander, who held air to be the infinite source of finite things.
Afterward his pupil Anaximenes said that the air was infinite, but that the things which arose from it were finite;
On the Nature of the Gods
Early Greek philosopher who held air to be god.
After him Anaximenes set up air as god, and held it to be generated, and boundless and infinite, and ever in motion — as though air without any shape could be a god (especially since it becomes a god not merely to have some shape but the fairest), or as though all that has had a beginning were not followed by mortality.
Protrepticus
Milesian philosopher who held air to be a divine first principle.
The elements, then, some set down as first principles, hymning them:
Stromata
Milesian philosopher in the Ionic succession.
Anaximander, son of Praxiades, the Milesian, succeeds Thales;
Against Eubulides
An alien who, along with Nicostratus, allegedly bribed Eubulides and his associates to be admitted to the citizen rolls.
For, you must know, men of Athens, that when certain aliens, Anaximenes and Nicostratus, wished to become citizens, these scoundrels admitted them for a sum of money, which they divided among themselves, receiving five drachmae apiece.
Adversus Marcionem
Greek philosopher credited with holding air to be divine.
as Thales water, Heraclitus fire, Anaximenes air, Anaximander all the heavenly bodies, Strato heaven and earth, Zeno air and aether, Plato the stars (which kind of gods he calls fiery) — when, considering of the world its greatness and force and power and honour and beauty, the resource, the constancy, the law of the several elements, which conspire to the begetting, nourishing, completing, and re …
De Anima
Pre-Socratic philosopher who held air to be the fundamental substance, including of the soul.
— not that air is its very substance (although this seemed so to Aenesidemus and Anaximenes, and, I think, according to some, to Heraclitus too), nor that it is light (although this pleased Heraclides of Pontus).