Zeus seduces Olympias
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Zeus seduces Olympias[1][2] (1526-1534) is a fresco by Giulio Romano made on the walls of the Sala di Psiche of the Palazzo del Te in Mantua, Italy.
It shows Jupiter in an obvious state of excitement approaching Olympias who has semi-splayed her legs. The painting is also called Zeus Approaches Olympias in the Form of a Snake.
Peter Webb in The Erotic Arts says that "the king of the Gods is shown as an ithyphallic sea-serpent about to have intercourse with the nude Olympia [sic]" (p. 117). The episode is from Plutarch's Life of Alexander, which tells how Jupiter Ammon lay with Olympias in the form of a snake ("consorting with his wife in the form of a serpent").
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