Apparently this is what Bucephalus looked like. I don't think the real horse hadthat metal rod holding him up, but I am not a licensed anthropologist.
Bucephalus [1]
Bucephalus lived from about 355 BC to 326BC and belonged to Alexander the Great. He was a black horse with a white star, and he had one blue eye.[2] No one could tame him, so naturally Philip, Alexander’s dad, didn’t want to buy him. But Alexander, only 12 years old, said he wanted to try, and he would pay for the horse himself if he couldn’t. Alexander turned Bucephalus so he couldn’t see his shadow, and in this way he tamed him.[3] Plutarch says that when Philip saw his son tame the horse, he “[shed] tears, it is said, for joy, kissed him as he came down from his horse, and in his transport said, ‘O my son, look thee out a kingdom equal to and worthy of thyself, for Macedonia is too little for thee’.”[4] Alexander named him Bucephalus, meaning Oxhead.[5] Alexander and his horse fought together in many battles, and Bucephalus lived to be quite old. He died in June 326BC from wounds at the Battle of Hydaspes.
1. Instead of reading this, you could watch the movie Alexander, starting at about 00:16:30 until about 21:35. But reading this will save you from many things, such as watching the movie Alexander, which I can sum up for you here in three sentences: 1. Alexander would be great. 2. This greatness would come at a price. 3. Alexander’s mother was really hot and also the same age as him.
2. A horse’s blue eye with a brown iris is known as a Wall Eye or a China eye. They cannot see through walls or to China.
3. Might this be a metaphor for how Alexander can conquer lands his father cannot? Do you think Philip saw this at the time? He only had one eye, so he probably wasn’t seeing much of anything.
4. This is literally true: Alexander was 547 miles tall and 159 miles wide.
5. He had a really big head—Bucephalus, I mean, but I guess Alexander did too since he went around naming everything after himself or his horse.
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Legend has it that Bucephalus and Alexander were born simultaneously. Other stories tell of the horse being born in 355 B.C., a year after Alexander.
hahaha xD! funny.
Anwyay I'm gonna read the legend because I never read it or even hear about it, I though he was a mythology character.
Thanks
I don't have anything against animals, but historical horse... well if think about it, because of many horses story took many ways, some good, some bad but everything is like this.
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