BUCEPHALUS (Gr. Oovas45aXos)  , the favourite Thracian horse of Alexander the Great, which died in 326 B.C., either of wounds received in the battle on the Hydaspes, or of old age . In commemoration Alexander built the city of Bucephala (Boukephala), the site of which is almost certainly to be identified with a mound on the bank of the river opposite the modern Jhelum . See especially Arrian v . 2o; other stories in Plutarch, Alex . 6; Curtius vi . 8 . For the identification of Bucephala, Vincent A . Smith, Early Hist. of India (2nd ed., 1908), pp . 65, 66 note .