Isocrates >Peri tou zeugous

The legendary Alcibiades, the renowned Athenian general, cut a charismatic yet enigmatic figure, glorious and provocative, attractive and ambiguous. Isocrates’ Peri tou zeugous (On the Team of Horses; 16), from the early 4^th century BC, concerns a legal case against Alcibiades’ son, the younger Alcibiades, regarding the misappropriation by his father of a four-horse chariot that he had used to win the Olympic Games in 416 BC., but essentially functions as an encomium of his father’s activit...