Anaximenes of Miletus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Miletus in Anatolia. He was the last of the three philosophers of the Milesian School, after Thales and Anaximander. These three are regarded by historians as the first philosophers of the Western world. Little is known of Anaximenes's life and work, as all of his original texts are lost. Historians and philosophers have reconstructed information about Anaximenes by interpreting texts about him by later writers. 585 BC – 528 BC; died at about 57. Alive at the same time as The Buddha, Sun Tzu, Sappho, Confucius, and Pythagoras. Wiki link