The Great Horse

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This is my entry for *TheOutli3Rs contest in the group (category 1)

I chose to do Alexander The Greats Horse Bucephalas. He is described as having a black coat with a large white star on his brow, along with a "wall", or blue eye. He was Alexander The Greats mount in many battles till his death in the battle of Battle of the Hydaspes in 326 BC, (modern day Pakistan)

"In 344 BC, a thirteen-year-old[3] Alexander won the horse.[4] A horse dealer named Philonicus the Thessalian offered Bucephalus to King Philip II for the sum of 13 talents, but because no one could tame the animal, Philip was not interested. However, Philip's son Alexander was. He promised to pay for the horse himself should he fail to tame it. He was given a chance and surprised all by subduing it. He spoke soothingly to the horse and turned it towards the sun so that it could no longer see its own shadow, which had been the cause of its distress. Dropping his fluttering cloak as well, Alexander successfully tamed the horse. Plutarch says that the incident so impressed Philip that he told the boy, "O my son, look thee out a kingdom equal to and worthy of thyself, for Macedonia is too little for thee."[4] Philip's speech strikes the only false note in the anecdote, according to AR Anderson,[5] who noted his words as the embryo of the legend fully developed in the History of Alexander the Great I.15, 17." [link]


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