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Alexander the Great on Bucephalus

Alexander the Great on Bucephalus

‎Bucephalus, one of history’s most famous horses, carries Alexander the Great into the fray in this section of the first-century B.C. Pompeian mosaic depicting the Battle of Issus (333 B.C.) The Roman writer Plutarch recounts how a 13-year old Alexander broke the big-headed horse (“Bucephalus” means “ox head”) after many other men had tried and failed. In Plutarch’s legend, Alexander’s equestrian skills so impressed his father Philip that he declared, “Macedonia is too small for you, son!”
Dan 8:5–8, Dan 11:2–4, 1 Macc 1:1, 7, 1 Macc 6:2
‎Image by user Ruthven, from Wikimedia Commons. License: Public Domain



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