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Iphicrates

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Iphicrates (c. 415–353 BC)

Athenian general. An innovative military leader, he commanded a force of mercenary light infantry (‘peltasts’), with which he annihilated a battalion of Spartan hoplites (heavy infantry) 390 BC. He continued as an Athenian commander until he retired 364 BC after failing to recapture Amphipolis, although he returned to command the Athenian fleet 355.

Iphicrates married a daughter of the Thracian king Cotys.



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129--146) should also contain two sections on explicit narratorial interventions (which, she argues, have important implications for Xenophon's narrative as a whole): one on Teleutias the Spartan and one on Iphicrates the Athenian in the Hellenica, as well as a section on "Implicit forms of evaluation" employed by secondary narrators; likewise, it is fitting that de Jong's chapter on Herodotus (pp.
I. de Jong, R. Nunlist, A. Bowie (eds): Narrators, Narratees, and ... by Doulamis, Konstantin / Ancient Narrative
Even when Iphicrates and Euphrosine admit to the vanities and vacuities their servants furiously describe, and the generous menials forgive their employers their trespasses in a scene of tearful reconciliation, there's scant emotional or satirical impact.
Vain but not so glorious by The Evening Standard (London, England)
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