# Dioscorides — Cleopatra character guide

> Dioscorides in Cleopatra by H. Rider Haggard.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0032-iii-of-the-life-of-him-who-was-named-the-learned-olympus-in-the-tomb-of-the-harpers-that-is-by-t-p-of-his-counsel-to-cleopatra-of-the-message-of-charmion-and-of-the-passing-of-olympus-down-to-alexandria

## Who they are

Greek scholar and friend of Olympus.

## In the story

### [Of the Coming of Charmion; and of the Wrath of Sepa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cleopatra_se/chapters/ii-of-the-coming-of-charmion-and-of-the-wrath-of-sepa)

Mentioned as the former astrologer dismissed by Cleopatra after a failed prophecy, leaving his position open.

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