Lamachos
Lamachos was an Athenian general time of the Peloponnesian War.
It was Stratège towards 435;
In 415 it was indicated with Alcibiade and Nicias to order the Expédition of Sicily; he proposed an aggressive policy against Syracuse, which was rejected in favor of the more careful strategy of Nicias; Donald Kagan suggested that the strategy of Lamachos could have brought to Athens a fast victory instead of the disaster which followed. Lamachos died in Sicily in a skirmish in 414.
It was caricatured by Aristophane in its comedy Acharniens . In the theater of Aristophane, Lamachos incarnates the prototype of old the hoplite saber-rattler, blusterer but especially fanfaron. Prompt to cover its panoply and to leave to shift, it is put in scene in Acharniens only to show it parallel between its warlike preparations - ridiculous and pathetic - and the festive preparations of Dicéopolis, the hero of the part, disengaged from the military obligations towards its city after having concluded an individual peace with the enemy.
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