# Ptolemy Aulêtes — Cleopatra character guide

> Ptolemy Aulêtes in Cleopatra by H. Rider Haggard.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Ptolemy the Piper

**First appearance:** 0005-i-of-the-birth-of-harmachis-the-prophecy-of-the-hathors-and-the-slaying-of-the-innocent-child

## Who they are

Cleopatra's father, former king of Egypt.

## In the story

### [Of the Birth of Harmachis; The Prophecy of the Hathors; and the Slaying of the Innocent Child](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cleopatra_se/chapters/i-of-the-birth-of-harmachis-the-prophecy-of-the-hathors-and-the-slaying-of-the-innocent-child)

Pharaoh of Egypt who orders the murder of the prophesied child.

### [Of the Disobedience of Harmachis; Of the Slaying of the Lion; and of the Speech of the Old Wife, Atoua](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cleopatra_se/chapters/ii-of-the-disobedience-of-harmachis-of-the-slaying-of-the-lion-and-of-the-speech-of-the-old-wife-atoua)

The Piper Pharaoh, who mocked the head of a slain child and later trembled at the omen spoken by a sharp-tongued girl.

### [III: Of the Rebuke of Amenemhat; Of the Prayer of Harmachis; and of the Sign Given by the Holy Gods](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cleopatra_se/chapters/iii-of-the-rebuke-of-amenemhat-of-the-prayer-of-harmachis-and-of-the-sign-given-by-the-holy-gods)

The dead king who had sought to kill Harmachis; his will is being defied by the eunuch Pothinus.

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