Anaximenes
c. 586 BCE–c. 526 BCE · Miletus
Third Milesian; held aēr (air) to be the underlying principle, condensing and rarefying into all things.
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MiletusIonia (Asia Minor)
We know they were here, but the specifics of what they did at this stop aren’t recorded yet in our corpus.
About Miletus
The prosperous Ionian port where Greek philosophy was born, as Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes first sought to explain the cosmos through nature rather than myth.
In Miletus at the same time
In the same place & time
Sages whose lives overlapped with Anaximenes’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Anaximenes’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Mesopotamian world
Egyptian world
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Works
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