Bucephalus

bu-sef'a-lus, the favorite warhorse of Alexander the Great. The word is Greek, meaning literally oxhead. When a youth, Alexander won great credit by breaking Bucephalus to ride. He was a colt of unusual spirit, but was afraid of his own shadow,--a fact which Alexander was the first to notice. Alexander kept his head toward the sun. He rode Bucephalus during his Persian campaigns. When the horse died on the banks of the Hydaspes in India, Alexander raised a pillar in his memory and named a military post in the vicinity Bucephalia. See Alexander The Great