Ulteriori nuove testimonianze di Anassimene di Lampsaco. Ps.-Max. Loc. comm. 12, 69, sul rapporto con Diogene Cinico, e Niceph. Basil. Enc. Io. 6, 170-179, su Anassimene scrittore di Alessandro

This paper focuses on two texts about Anaximenes of Lampsacus which have not been published in any of the existing collections of Anaximenes’ fragments and should therefore be classified as new testimonia. In the first part, the A. examines Ps.-Max. Loc. comm. 12, 69, as well as further testimonia on Anaximenes’s relationship with Diogenes the Cynic, thus questioning the tradition that Anaximenes was a disciple of Diogenes. in the second part, the A. examines Niceph. Basil. Enc. Io. 6, 170-179, as well as further testimonia on Anaximenes as an historian of Alexander. The analysis suggests that Anaximenes stressed two points: 1) he was an eyewitness of Alexander’s conquest of Asia; 2) he wanted to write a work whose literary status was far greater than that of previous works, thus matching the unchallenged greatness of his object, i.e. the deeds of Alexander, the ‘new Achilles’. The analysis also reveals the strong influence of Anaximenes in Arrian’s ‘second preface’ in the Anabasis of Alexander (1, 12).