Olympias
Deceased Person
1969 – 2024
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Who was Olympias?
Olympias 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 it is suggested by the 1st century AD biographer, Plutarch, that she may have slept with snakes.
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- Dec 31, 1969
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- Apr 19, 2024
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on July 23, 2013
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