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Doesn't emphasise his stunning victories over the Spartans[edit]
In his day, Iphicrates was most famous as the man who defeated the Spartans in open battle on land for the first time. The article doesn't say this, although it shattered the image of Spartan invincibility and was the beginning of the end of Sparta's hegemony in Greece. It should say something like
Iphicrates (Greek: Ιφικράτης) (c. 418 BC – c. 353 BC) was an Athenian general, the son of a shoemaker of the deme of Rhamnous,[1] who flourished in the earlier half of the 4th century BC. He was the first to defeat the Spartans in open battle and is credited with important infantry reforms that revolutionized ancient Greek warfare by regularizing light-armed peltasts.[2] He was never defeated in battle and had many military stratagems attributed to him.
Somewhere else it could also be added that
he never lost a court case, was never exiled, and Polyaenus attributed more than 63 stratagems to him - the greatest number for any single general. He was the first Athenian strategos (general) to have his own name instead of his city's inscribed on the spoils of war. Simply to be able to say that you had fought under Iphicrates' command became a title of the greatest honour.
