It is commonly believed, though no reason is assigned, that Ephippus lived about or shortly after the time of Alexander.
If the Ephippus then in Arrian be the same as the historian, he was a contemporary of Alexander and survived him for some time, for he wrote an account of the king's burial.
From the few fragments still extant, it would appear that Ephippus described more the private and personal character of his heroes than their public careers.
[2] It should be remarked that by a singular mistake Suidas in his article Ephippus gives an account of Ephorus of Cumae.
Pliny[3] mentions one Ephippus among the authorities he consulted upon plants, and it is generally believed that he is a different person from our historian; but all the writers whom Pliny mentions along with him, belong to the period of Alexander, so that it is by no means improbable that he may be Ephippus of Olynthus.