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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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