Son of a cobbler; Athenian; an orator and general. He was the first to have mention of the general inscribed on arms-dedications; previously only the name of the city had been inscribed.[1]
Iphikratês, skuteôs patros, Athênaios, rhêtôr kai stratêgos: hos prôtos en tois laphurois to epigramma epoiêse memnêmenon tou stratêgou, proteron monês tês poleôs epigraphomenês.
First half of C4 BCE. See already
iota 770,
iota 771, and generally OCD(4) s.v. Iphicrates.
[1] This claim is quoted and, seemingly, accepted by W.K. Pritchett,
The Greek State at War, iii (Berkeley & Los Angeles 1979) 270. The earlier case of the Spartan
Pausanias, also mentioned by Pritchett, can presumably be discounted because it was deemed unacceptable (see
Thucydides 1.132.3, etc.), but a proper assessment of exactly what the Suda is here claiming about Iphikrates -- e.g. first Athenian to do this? -- needs further work.
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