Alexander the Great

Beautiful videos, esp. Bucephalus (---cephalus- Gr. for "head"? wonder what the prefix means). On other threads the debate roils over socialism and race. The latter includes for me the power of beauty and art. On the Old Forum one could find rare gems in the poetry and other sections, esp European music ones. Good to see that's happening here.

Hi mojave,

It means ox.

Notice the reference to the star. It seems to have significanance, (i.e., phalanx).

"Bucephalus or Bucephalas (Ancient Greek: Βουκέφαλος or Βουκεφάλας, from βούς bous, "ox" and κεφαλή kephalē, "head" meaning "ox-head") (c. 355 BC – June 326 BC) was Alexander the Great's horse and one of the most famous actual horses of antiquity.[1] Ancient accounts[2] state that Bucephalus died after the Battle of the Hydaspes in 326 BC, in what is now modern Pakistan, and is buried in Jalalpur Sharif outside of Jhelum, Pakistan. Another account states that Bucephalus is buried in Phalia, a town in Pakistan's Mandi Bahauddin District, which is named after him."

"A massive creature with a massive head, Bucephalus is described as having a black coat with a large white star on his brow. He is also supposed to have had a "wall", or blue eye, and his breeding was that of the "best Thessalian strain." Plutarch tells the story of how, 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."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucephalus

Mojave wrote:Beautiful videos, esp. Bucephalus (---cephalus- Gr. for "head"? wonder what the prefix means). On other threads the debate roils over socialism and race. The latter includes for me the power of beauty and art. On the Old Forum one could find rare gems in the poetry and other sections, esp European music ones. Good to see that's happening here.

Elysium,
Thanks for the explication. I meant what I said about the power of beauty. I find an abundance of it in our race. The real fare far outshines the meanspirited so-called pro-white drivel I found so often on the old forum, and there so often said by shrill erstwhile spokesvolk who actually knew and felt so little.

I had the gift, long ago, of encountering wild horses out on the Oregon-Nevada open range. We were on fire patrol and all of a sudden, on the flats to the left of our truck, there was a herd paralleling us, cantering easy. Mostly calico-looking as I remember, some darker colors, with a curious multipaint lead mare in front, just checking us out.

Long, long may they, and we, run.

Your username- by any chance related to the Elysian fields of the ancient lands?