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Bucephalus (/ b juː. ˈ s ɛ. f ə. l ə s /; Ancient Greek: Βουκεφᾰ́λᾱς, romanized: Būcephắlās; c. 355 BC – June 326 BC) or Bucephalas, was the horse of Alexander the Great, and one of the most famous horses of classical antiquity. [1]
The description agrees with the so-called Abgar description of Jesus as well as the description of Jesus given by Nicephorus Callistus, St. John Damascene, and the Book of Painters (of Mount Athos). [4] Ernst von Dobschütz enumerates the different manuscripts which vary from the foregoing text in several details, and gives an apparatus ...
The horse has the peculiarity of being associated with each of the three constituent elements (air, water and fire) and the stars (sun and moon), appearing as their avatar or friend. Unlike the other three elements, which correspond to the etymology of the horse as an animal in motion, the earth appears far removed from its symbolism. [ 152 ]
In other traditions, Poseidon is the father of Xanthus along with another horse named Cyllarus to an unnamed mother. [1] It is possible that Xanthus's ability to speak prophetically may be related to Arion , another mythical horse reported to have saved Adrastus from the war of the Seven against Thebes with his prophetic abilities in Statius's ...
Bayard, by the late 13th century, also acquired common usage as a name for any bay-coloured horse (reddish-brown coat with black mane and tail) and lost some of his lustre as a magic heroic horse. The name "Bayard" became associated in English literature with a clownish, blind and foolish horse.
Equus is a 1973 play by Peter Shaffer, about a child psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses. [1]Shaffer was inspired to write Equus when he heard of a crime involving a 17-year-old boy who blinded six horses in a small town in northern England.
A huge white horse appears in Korean mythology in the story of the kingdom of Silla. When the people gathered to pray for a king, the horse emerged from a bolt of lightning, bowing to a shining egg. After the horse flew back to heaven, the egg opened and the boy Park Hyeokgeose emerged. When he grew up, he united six warring states.
Centaurs are creatures with the upper torso of a human and the lower legs and body of a horse, just as they appear in Greek mythology.Unlike most of their counterparts in the Greek myths (which are portrayed as wild, violent, lustful, and intoxicated), [6] Narnian centaurs are always seen in a positive light, more in line with the unique Greek figure Chiron.