Antipater of Phlya

Antipater of Phlya (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίπατρος Ἀντιπατρου Φλυεύς, romanized: Antipatros Antipatrou Phlyeus, fl.

20s-10s BC) was a leading statesman at Athens during the reign of Augustus, serving as Hoplite General (the chief Athenian magistracy) an unprecedented seven times.

[4] Around this time he appears as the proposer of a decree (Agora XVI 336) which established new divine honours for Augustus, notably a festival celebrating his birthday.

[5] Another decree (Agora XV 293) commemorates Antipater's fifth term as hoplite general in the archonship of Demeas of Azenia (Byrne: ca.

This citizenship grant is known from the fact that several of his descendants bear the nomen Vipsanius and from a tombstone for three of his shipwrecked slaves who are named as "Rufio, Philemation, and Ma, Vipsani of Antipater".

[12] His daughter Vipsania Laeliana erected in a statue commemorating her son Titus Vipsanius Flavianus' "initiation from the hearth" around AD 120.