BUCEPHALUS, the favourite Thracian horse of Alexander the Great (Gr. f3ovicE4aXos), which died in 326 B.C. In com memoration Alexander built the city of. Bucephala, whose site may be identified with a mound opposite the modern Jhelum.
See especially Arrian V. 20 ; other stories in Plutarch, Bibliography. See especially Arrian V. 20 ; other stories in Plutarch, Alex., 6; Curtius vi. 8. For the identification of Bucephala, see Vincent A. Smith, Early Hist. of India, p. 65, 66 note (2nd ed., 1908).
