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Anaxis (Ancient Greek: Ἄναξις) was an obscure Boeotian writer of uncertain date who wrote a history of Greece, which was carried down to 360 BCE, the year before the accession of Philip II of Macedon to the kingdom of Macedonia. This history is now lost.

It has been proposed by some scholars, notably Ernst von Stern, that the history of Anaxis was relied on in part by Plutarch in his life of the Boeotian Pelopidas.

Notes

1. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica xv. 95
2. Holm, Adolf (1907). The History of Greece from Its Commencement to the Close of the Independence of the Greek Nation. Macmillan Publishers. pp. 82. anaxis boeotia.

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Anaxis". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 167.

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