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	Alexander and Bucephalus - the Bucephalus incident
		Alexander's reaction was viewed by his father to be immature, in addition to being disrespectful to all the people that failed to tame down Bucephalus.
		Alexander went on to name his horse Bucephalus, which means Oxhead, as the horse had a rather sizeable head.
		For his beloved horse, Alexander held a generous funeral, which he himself led.Alexander knew that it was with the help of his wonderful horse Bucephalus, that he had become Alexander the Great.
	www.mymacedonia.net /history/bucephalus.htm (417 words)

	Adventures of Bucephalus
		Bucephalus is a cutter rig and was built in 1983 in the Philippines by Pacfic Seacraft (Philippines).
		During the spring of 2004, Bucephalus was hauled out at Boat Lagoon and for the next three months she was given a full refit.
		Bucephalus is an impressive boat and I'm looking forward to putting her through her paces.
	www.sailblogs.com /member/bucephalus/?xjMsgID=8697 (1615 words)

	Bucephalus
		Bucephalus was supposedly a terror, unable to be ridden and devouring the flesh of all who tried.
		The mythic attributes of the animal are further reinforced by the Delphic Oracle, which tells Philip that the destined king of the world will be the one who rides Bucephalus, a horse with the mark of the ox's head on his haunch.
		Arrian states Bucephalus died sometime between the age of 28 to 30, in June of 326 BC after being fatally wounded at the battle of Hydaspes, and Alexander promptly founded a city in honour of the horse, Bucephala.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/LX/Bucephalus.html (465 words)

	Program Notes
		Instead, "Bucephalus" is a structure based on rigorous mathematical manipulation of basic ideas which, when expanded to create the large-scale form of the work, relate themselves thematically to the work's literary subjects.
		While Bucephalus is clearly the same horse from earlier stories, the associations with Alexander and with his historical life are here only accessible as memories of things past, and lack the immediacy they had in the previous setting.
		As Bucephalus' legendary status is dwarfed by placing him in a mundane, modern setting, so the collage of fragments and motives only serves to undermine the significance they once had within the more consistent context of the movements from which they are taken.
	www.commonmuse.com /deadhorse.htm (8889 words)

	Bucephalus - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He did tame Bucephalus, and the horse became his, along with Philip’s declaration that he should carve out a new kingdom, as Macedon was not large enough to contain him.
		Bucephalus is generally thought of as being fl, although he is distinctly brown on the Alexander Mosaic.
		Bucephalus died during, or shortly after, the Battle of the Hydaspes, in 326 BC.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Bucephalus (700 words)

	Bucephalus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Plutarch tells us the story of wondrous horse, Bucephalus, the horse that Alexander the Great rode for thousands of miles and through many battles to create his mighty empire.
		Philip was angry at Phinoneicus for bringing such an unstable horse to him but Alexander had watched Bucephalus and set his father, Philip, a challenge.
		Bucephalus, the mighty stallion, died of battle wounds in 326B.C in Alexander's last battle.
	www.bucephalus.net (228 words)

	The Horse Who Was Afraid Of His Own Shadow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bucephalus means “ox-head.” Some say he got the name because of his unusually wide head.
		Bucephalus was a gift to Philip, the King of Macedon, a powerful nation just north of Greece.
		In 326 B.C., Bucephalus died in a battle against the armies of the King of India, who fought with an enormous cavalry of elephants.
	pubs.logicalexpressions.com /pub0012/LPMArticle.asp?ID=5 (483 words)

	Horse and Rider: Bucephalus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Renault introduces Bucephalus first through a brief relation of the more common exaggerations of his tale--namely, that Bucephalus and Alexander, who would have been thirteen at the time of their meeting, came together as rebellious youths, their solidarity firmly rooted in that soil.
		Bucephalus and the entirety of a string of horses that traveled with him were stolen in the mountain forests where his master campaigned.
		Though Bucephalus was twenty-five at the time and retired from service, Alexander was so distressed at his loss that he sent his "heralds to threaten general devastation if [Bucephalus was] not returned." He then turned around and rewarded the horse thieves when they restored the old horse to him.
	www1.hollins.edu /faculty/saloweyca/horse/bucephalus.htm (827 words)

	Alexander and the Unicorn: a unicorn legend from Unicorn Dreams at Lair2000
		Called Bucephalus on account of its horn (the name meaning literally, if not very poetically, Ox-head), the beast lashed out so furiously at every attempt to mount it that soon Philip's champion riders gave up and it was led away as wholly useless and intractable.
		Many side bets were exchanged as Bucephalus was led on to the field, and not a few of them were on whether the boy would survive his wager, let alone win it.
		Bucephalus remained with Alexander almost to the end of both their lives and was ridden by him into every major battle in his conquest of Egypt and the Persian Empire.
	lair2000.net /unicorn25/Legends/Alexander_and_the_Unicorn.html (1372 words)

	Bucephalus by Breyer
		Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) was the outstanding military leader of his age, extending the Greek Empire into Egypt and east to the borders of India.
		His chosen mount was Bucephalus, meaning "oxhead," a particularly large horse with a fl coat and a white star on his forehead.
		Bucephalus was 30 years old the last time Alexander rode him into battle and at the end of the day, the great horse died from his wounds.
	www.tableandhome.com /prodieef (107 words)

	Program Notes
		String Quartet #2 "Bucephalus" (1983-84), commissioned by the Alexander String Quartet with support of Chamber Music America and the Connecticut Commission for the Arts, String Quartet #2 was written in honor of György Ligeti's 60th birthday.
		The titles of the five movements were drawn from a number of events, real or imaginary, in the lives of Alexander the Great and his war horse Bucephalus.
		With astonishing insight people tell themselves that, modern society being what it is, Bucephalus is in a diffiuclt position, and therefore, considering also his importance in the history of the world, he deserves at least a friendly reception.
	www.commonmuse.com /programnotes/string2.htm (344 words)

	The Crystal Bucephalus
		The turbulence generated by the link between the Bucephalus and the Exemplar causes the TARDIS to stall in the Vortex, and when Matisse tries to use the telepathic circuits to find out how to put things right, the sheer amount of information flooding through them knocks her out.
		She therefore offers to use the Bucephalus to open a time gate to Hexdane, the capital of the Lazarus Intent, but is unable to do so due to the turbulence of the Vortex rupture.
		The Bucephalus isn't the only building the Doctor has the ownership of -- in Demontage, the Eighth Doctor, Sam and Fitz visit the Vega space station casino, to which the Doctor was given the deeds of when he won so much in the casino that to pay him his money would have meant bankrupcy.
	www.drwhoguide.com /who_ma04.htm (3336 words)

	Outpost Gallifrey: Reviews
		It is perhaps inevitable that on learning that The Crystal Bucephalus concerns a time-travelling restaurant Douglas Adams (infinitely superior) The Restaurant at the End of the Universe comes to mind.
		In practice this means that the majority of the novel consists of two factions (one of which is hidden in a parasitical station bootstrapped onto the Bucephalus) sitting down at their respective control panels sending various computer programmes at each other while waffling a lot of technobabble about time spillages.
		The Crystal Bucephalus is a Tenth millennium restaurant where the upper echelons of society come to wine and dine.
	www.gallifreyone.com /review.php?id=ma-4 (970 words)

	The Great Bucephalus - ConceptArt.org Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bucephalus was the great steed which Alexander rode, without Bucephalus, many of Alexanders victories would not have been possible.
		Bucephalus was afraid of his shadow, and shyed away at it when he saw a person on his back in his shadow, thus why noone could ride him, but alexander figured this out.
		I think explaining away the problems people has seen is a bit of a copout, i dont mean what i said, fine of you think his legs are ok, but the back is too long, and if you are trying to suggest a more powerful horse if anything the back should be shorter.
	www.conceptart.org /forums/showthread.php?t=58120 (1718 words)

	Tamed the horse Bucephalus
		Philip, Alexander’s father, bought a horse called Bucephalus for the exorbitant price of 13 talents (1 talent = 27 kg of gold), but the rambunctious animal bucked all comers.
		By turning Bucephalus toward the sun so its shadow was behind it, Alexander was able to climb into the saddle and gallop around triumphantly.
		Macedonia is too small for you.” Bucephalus remained Alexander’s faithful steed until it died in what is now present-day Pakistan, fighting elephant-mounted brigades.
	www.livescience.com /history/top10_alexander_great-9.html (141 words)

	The Polo Zone - Eldorado Polo Club - Indio, CA
		Kirueshkin-Stepanoff broke the spell early in the third and put Bucephalus on the scoreboard with a nearside slam on a pass from Wright.
		Wright brought Bucephalus within one on a penalty conversion after a foul in the lineup with 2:01 remaining.
		Bucephalus engineered another turnover in OrePac territory as Wright, head to head with Soto, maneuvered for the hook on OrePac’s drive to goal.
	www.polobarn.com /events/events2006/feb06/021206b_eldo.html (529 words)

	STATE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART - Alexander and Bucephalus
		In their dynamic, diagonal arrangement, Alexander and Bucephalus seem to be charging into their spatial domain, an effect that is reinforced by the base, a semicircle of aluminium that suggests Alexander's conquests and his creation of a new world, and the four Macedonian spears (stainless steel and bronze) so proudly raised.
		The bodies of horse and rider are rendered in an attitude that evokes the vital relationship between them, for Bucephalus was part and parcel of Alexander's life, action, history and destiny.
		In Alexander and Bucephalus, he works in wood, revealing its plastic values through pulsating volumes and harmonious lines, projecting the dynamic of each and every form and accenting the vital energy that they contain.
	www.greekstatemuseum.com /article/articleview/72/1/42 (761 words)

	NGA - Degas - Object 2
		This is a large picture--forty-five by thirty-five inches--a size appropriate for history paintings, which were expected to be physically ambitious and grand, as well as intellectual and erudite.
		Bucephalus actually means "ox head," an apt name because of the animal's stubbornness.
		Alexander's father had warned him away from the horse, reputed to be dangerous, but Alexander had watched the trainers as they tried to tame Bucephalus and noticed that the horse seemed to shy away from his shadow.
	www.nga.gov /education/degas-02.htm (371 words)

	Carrying Greatness: Alexander's Buchephelus ~ EquestrianMag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Alexander's reaction was viewed by his father to be immature, and it showed disrespect to the grown men who failed to tame Bucephalus.
		When you consider that historians estimate that amount to be equivalent to about $1,560, it was a huge sum for a boy of Alexander's age to pay – whether he was of royal birth or not.
		The warrior king stated in his memorial remarks that it was only with the help of Bucephalus that he became Alexander the Great.
	www.equestrianmag.com /article/alexander-bucephalus.html (584 words)

	BreyerHorses.com :: Bucephalus
		His favorite mount was Bucephalus, meaning "oxhead," a particularly large horse with a fl coat and a white star on his forehead.
		The only man able to ride Bucephalus, Alexander had realized that the horse was afraid of his shadow.
		By turning the horse into the sun, Alexander was able to mount and ride him.
	www.breyerhorses.com /products/product.php?item=1162 (91 words)

	The Crystal Bucephalus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Crystal Bucephalus: a restaurant patronized by the highest echelons of society in the 10th millennium.
		When the galaxy's most notorious crime boss is murdered in the Bucephalus, the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough are immediately arrested for the killing.
		To prove their innocence, they must track down the perpetrators of slaughter and sabotage, and uncover a conspiracy which has been 5,000 years in the making.
	www.clivebanks.co.uk /Crystalbucephalus.htm (104 words)

	Bucephalus - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		BUCEPHALUS [Bucephalus], favorite horse of Alexander the Great.
		There are legends of his speed and the wondrous deeds that Alexander performed while riding him.
		The city Bucephala was founded there by Alexander in his honor.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-bucephal.html (163 words)

	The Crystal Bucephalus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		One of the patrons of the Bucephalus has been murdered, and once again the Doctor and company are the prime suspects.
		The Crystal Bucephalus is, as far as I can recall, the first time I've ever seriously contemplated throwing a Doctor Who book across the room.
		And towards the end, either I had been numbed enough by the book or was sufficiently charmed by it that I quite enjoyed the wrap-up, which did a fair job of resolving all of those plot threads.
	www.msu.edu /~gobeski1/CrystalB.htm (687 words)

	Discontinuity Guide - The Crystal Bucephalus
		It also seems a strange period for the Ice Warriors to be part of a galactic empire [their heyday on the galactic stage appears to have been well before then, maybe a few settled somewhere].
		Continuity: The Bucephalus cubicles are 10 foot tall and wide cylinders of polished wood, arranged in concentric circles around the Bucephalus Statue.
		The Bucephalus' security stewards are only different in that they have psi-whips and stunners.
	www.whoniverse.org /discontinuity/MA04.php (2448 words)

	Bucephalus
		Yet the horses of Caligula and Catherine were mere animals, handsome stallions to be sure, but simple beasts whose fame was but the reflected glory of their owners’ eccentricities.
		Bucephalus, on the other hand, was considered by some to be a demon horse, a creature impervious to mortal wounding.
		Matched with a pendant emblazoned with the image of the dreaded gorgon that dripped from Alexander’s neck, Bucephalus was among the many supposed supernatural weapons wielded by the young god-king.
	www.deonandan.com /bucephalus.html (2104 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The boy named the horse Bucephalus because his head was broad, like that of a bull.
		Having ridden the seemingly unbreakable Bucephalus, Alexander was inspired to conquer the world.
		When Bucephalus finally died, Alexander honored the horse by naming a city in central Asia after him.
	www.imh.org /imh/kyhpl1c.html (1929 words)

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