ABSTRACT
Anaximenes, the third of the Milesians, is by general consent a poor man’s Anaximander: his theories were those of his master. An innovator in detail, he was an imitator in all essentials. And the two main innovations he can be credited with prove him to have lacked the vigour and temerity of Anaximander: he allowed the earth to rest in archaic luxury on a cushion of air; and he smirched the metaphysical purity of Anaximander’s unlimited principle by turning it into a mass of gross, material air.
