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Alexippus (Ancient Greek: Ἀλέξιππος) was an ancient Greek physician who was mentioned by Plutarch as having received a letter from Alexander the Great himself, to thank him for having cured one of his officers, a man named Peucestas, of a wound incurred during a bear hunt probably around 327 BC.

References

1. Plutarch, Alex. 41.3.
2. Greenhill, William Alexander (1867). "Alexippus". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 128.
3. Heckel, Waldemar (2006). Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great: Prosopography of Alexander's Empire. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. p. 21. ISBN 1-4051-1210-7.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Alexippus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

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