What was the name of Cleopatra's personal physician?

Cleopatra's personal physician was named Olympos.

Olympos is known mainly through accounts of Cleopatra's final days. Plutarch identified him as her physician and used information attributed to him when describing her death in Alexandria in 30 BC. His testimony is especially important because he was presented as someone close to the queen during the crisis following Mark Antony's defeat by Octavian.

The ancient sources do not establish exactly how Cleopatra died. Plutarch recorded the famous story that an asp was smuggled to her in a basket of figs, but he also mentioned alternative possibilities. Olympos reportedly did not identify a specific cause, which is one reason modern historians continue to debate whether Cleopatra used a snake, poison, or another method.

Olympos should not be confused with famous physicians such as Hippocrates or Galen. Hippocrates lived centuries earlier, and Galen belonged to the Roman imperial period after Cleopatra. The spelling may also appear as Olympios or Olimpos in different transliterations from Greek, but Olympos is the conventional English form used in accounts of Cleopatra's physician.