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]
*)ifikra/ths, skute/ws patro/s, *)aqhnai=os, r(h/twr kai\ strathgo/s: o(\s prw=tos e)n toi=s lafu/rois to\ e)pi/gramma e)poi/hse memnhme/non tou= strathgou=, pro/teron mo/nhs th=s po/lews e)pigrafome/nhs.
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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