Iphicrates
Family: Athenians · Role: commander · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 10
In Book 3, Chapter 10, as the festival of Hyacinthus approached, Iphicrates’s Athenian forces attacked and destroyed a detachment sent by Agesilaus from Amyclæ: “This detachment were attacked on the road and cut to pieces by the Athenians under Iphicrates.”
In Book 9, Chapter 14, at Lechæum, Iphicrates—identified as the son of Timotheus—attacked Epaminondas with Athenians and targeteers as he approached a narrow defile. Epaminondas routed them and pursued them toward Athens.
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Life events
- Iphicrates’s forces attacked and destroyed the detachment Agesilaus had sent from Amyclæ.(Book 3 · Chapter 10)
- With: Agesilaus
- “This detachment were attacked on the road and cut to pieces by the Athenians under Iphicrates.”
- Iphicrates attacked Epaminondas, who routed and pursued the Athenians toward Athens.(Book 9 · Chapter 14 · 📍 Lechæum)
- With: Epaminondas
- “And when he got with his army as far as Lechæum, and was about to pass through a narrow and difficult defile, Iphicrates the son of Timotheus with a force of Athenians and some targeteers attacked him. And Epaminondas routed them and pursued them as far as Athens”
Book 3 · Chapter 10
- enemies with Agesilaus “This detachment were attacked on the road and cut to pieces by the Athenians under Iphicrates.”
Book 9 · Chapter 14
- parent: Timotheus (Timotheus is Iphicrates' father.) “Iphicrates the son of Timotheus with a force of Athenians and some targeteers attacked him.”
- with Epaminondas (Iphicrates attacked Epaminondas, who routed and pursued his forces.) “Iphicrates the son of Timotheus with a force of Athenians and some targeteers attacked him. And Epaminondas routed them and pursued them as far as Athens”
- enemies with Epaminondas (Iphicrates attacked Epaminondas in battle.) “Iphicrates the son of Timotheus with a force of Athenians and some targeteers attacked him. And Epaminondas routed them”
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