Olympias
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Olympias (ca. 375–316 BC) was a Greek princess of Epirus, daughter of king Neoptolemus I of Epirus, the fourth wife of the king of Macedonia, Philip II, and mother of Alexander the Great.
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Zeus
Plutarch mentions the legend that Zeus visited Olympias in the form of a serpent.
According to some sources, Olympias was a devout member of the orgiastic snake-worshiping cult of Dionysus, and may have slept with snakes.
Modern historian Robin Lane Fox says that "the nonsense about the snakes" is from Plutarch's Life of Alexander. Fox suggests that the snake-handling was the stuprum referred to by Justin 9.5.9.
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