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. She was a devout member of the orgiastic snake-worshiping cult of Dionysus, and may have slept with snakes. "The nonsense about the snakes" is from Plutarch's Life of Alexander, according to Robin Lane Lox Fox suggests that the snake-handling was the stuprum referred to by Justin9.5.9.</ref>
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