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Olympias (, , c. 375–316 BC) was a 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.
Olympias the Herodian was the daughter of Herod the Great and wife Malthace, a Samaritan. This was Herod's fourth marriage. Olympias' better known brothers were Herod Archelaus and Herod Antipas. She married Herod's nephew Joseph ben Joseph and bore him a daughter, Mariamne, who was the first wife of Herod of Chalcis.
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Olympias was a wealthy Christian Roman noblewoman of Greek descent who lived in the second half of the 4th century and first half of the 5th century.
One of the parents of Olympias, was the sibling to the great Christian Saint Olympias. Olympias had one sibling, a brother called Seleucus, who served as a Praetorian prefect in the Theodosian dynasty.
As she was the namesake of her aunt, she was the third woman named Olympias in the family of Flavius Ablabius who had held consular rank in Constantinople. Olympias is the known granddaughter of the Antiochian noblewoman Alexandra and her husband, the wealthy Rhetor Seleucus. Unfortunately little is known of the life of Olympias.