=Anaxibia=, a sister of Agamemnon, mother of seven sons and two daughters by Nestor. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 29.――――A daughter of Bias, brother to the physician Melampus. She married Pelias king of Iolchos, by whom she had Acastus and four daughters――Pisidice, Pelopea, Hippothoe, and Alceste. _Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 9.――――She is called daughter of Dymas by _Hyginus_, fable 14. =Anaxicrătes=, an Athenian archon. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 23. =Anaxidămus=, succeeded his father Zeuxidamus on the throne of Sparta. _Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 7; bk. 4, ch. 15. =Anaxĭlas= and =Anaxĭlaus=, a Messenian, tyrant of Rhegium. He took Zancle, and was so mild and popular during his reign, that when he died, 476 B.C., he left his infant sons to the care of one of his servants, and the citizens chose rather to obey a slave than revolt from their benevolent sovereign’s children. _Justin_, bk. 3, ch. 2. ――_Pausanias_, bk. 4, ch. 23; bk. 5, ch. 27.――_Thucydides_, bk. 6, ch. 5.――_Herodotus_, bk. 6, ch. 23; bk. 7, ch. 167.――――A magician of Larissa, banished from Italy by Augustus.――――A Pythagorean philosopher.――――A physician. _Pliny_, bk. 19, ch. 1.――――An historian, who began his history with bitter invectives against former writers. _Dionysius of Halicarnassus._――――A Lacedæmonian. _Plutarch_, _Alcibiades_.――――A comic writer, about the 100th Olympiad. =Anaxilĭdes=, wrote some treatises concerning philosophers, and mentioned that Plato’s mother became pregnant by a phantom of the god Apollo, from which circumstance her son was called the prince of wisdom. _Diogenes Laërtius_, _Plutarch_. =Anaximander=, a Milesian philosopher, the companion and disciple of Thales. He was the first who constructed spheres, asserted that the earth was of a cylindrical form, and taught that men were born of earth and water mixed together, and heated by the beams of the sun; that the earth moved, and that the moon received light from the sun, which he considered as a circle of fire like a wheel, about 28 times bigger than the earth. He made the first geographical maps and sun-dials. He died in the 64th year of his age, B.C. 547. _Cicero_, _Academicæ Quæstiones_, bk. 4, ch. 37.――_Diogenes Laërtius_, _Lives of Eminent Philosophers_.――_Pliny_, bk. 2, ch. 70.――_Plutarch_, _Quæstiones Convivales_. He had a son who bore his name. _Strabo_, bk. 1.