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EXCLUSIVE limited edition! The Black Stallion Bucephalus, Collectible Horse Pendant Necklace in sterling silver. - 18" STERLING CHAIN INCLUDED!!!
New from the foundry and is only available through the author's son Tim Farley.
Solid silver pendant of Alexander the Great's beloved horse...
"Bucephalus- Treasure of the Desert"
Inspired by the horse figurine given to Alec Ramsay in Walter Farley's book, "The Black Stallion"- and the award winning 1979 feature film.
Watch the scene from the movie here;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu0VOHIsdo4
The perfect gift for someone very special!
Quality SOLID STERLING SILVER casting, with a beautiful high polish silver finish. Sterling silver naturally darkens or oxidizes over time, like the ancient one depicted in the movie. The darker patina can always be polished back to original luster with silver polish. Made in the USA.
1" X 1" hoof to mane by tail to nose 4.6 grams
This pendant comes on a BEAUTIFUL 18" STERLING SILVER CHAIN necklace with silver lobster claw clasp. It ships in a black jewelers cardboard gift box.
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"The perfect gift for that rider ... or writer in your life. Happy reading and riding!"
Tim Farley
More information about Bucephalus: or Bucephalas "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. Ancient accounts 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 stallion Bucephalus is described as having a black coat with a large white star on his brow. His breeding was that of the "best Thessalian strain." Plutarch tells the story of how, in 344 BC, a thirteen-year-old Alexander won the horse. 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." History of Alexander the Great.
The Alexander Romance presents a mythic variant of Bucephalus's origin. In this tale, the colt, whose heroic attributes surpassed even those of Pegasus, is bred and presented to Philip on his own estates. The mythic attributes of the animal are further reinforced in the romance by the Delphic Oracle, who tells Philip that the destined king of the world will be the one who rides Bucephalus, a horse with the mark of the ox's head on his haunch.
As one of his chargers, Bucephalus served Alexander in numerous battles. His legend fired the imagination of many artists from the ancient to the modern world. Paintings of Labrum's Alexandrine subjects, including Bucephalus, survive today in the Louvre. One in particular, The Passage of the Granicus, depicts the warhorse battling the difficulties of the steep muddy river banks, biting and kicking his foes.
Like his hero and supposed ancestor Achilles, Alexander felt that his horses were "known to excel all others—for they are immortal. Poseidon gave them to my father Peleus, who in his turn gave them to myself."
Arrian states, with Onesicritus as his source, that Bucephalus died at the age of thirty, an old age for a horse even in modern times. Other sources, however, give as the cause of death not old age or weariness, but fatal injuries at the Battle of the Hydaspes (June 326 BC), in which Alexander's army defeated King Porus. Alexander promptly founded a city, Bucephala, in honour of his horse. It lay on the west bank of the Hydaspes river (modern-day Jhelum in Pakistan) The modern-day town of Jalalpur Sharif, outside Jhelum, is said to be where Bucephalus is buried.
The legend of Bucephalus grew in association with that of Alexander, beginning with the fiction that they were born simultaneously: some of the later versions of the Alexander Romance also synchronized the hour of their death. The pair forged a sort of cult in that, after them, it was all but expected of a conqueror that he have a favourite horse. Julius Caesar had one; so too did the eccentric Roman Emperor Caligula, who made a great fuss of his horse Incitatus, holding birthday parties for him, riding him while adorned with Alexander's breastplate and planning to make him a consul.