Alexander and Olympias Playing with snakes
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Olympias (Greek: Ολυμπιάς), ca. 376–316 BC, was an Epirote princess, the fourth wife of King Philip II of Macedon and mother of Alexander the Great.

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She was a devout member of the orgiastic snake-worshiping cult of Dionysus, and probably slept with snakes. Olympias apparently was originally named Myrtale (or 'Mistilis').

Olympias was the daughter of Neoptolemus, king of Epirus and member of the Aeacidae, a well respected family of Greece. Neoptolemus was named after the son of Achilles, from whom the family claimed descent. Her brother was Alexander I of Epirus, a kingdom ruled later by Pyrrhus.