317 B.C. Death of Olympias

• Olympias 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.

•  Her family belonged to the Aeacidae.

• Source: http://www.ancient.eu/Olympias/