Alexander the Great’s mother, Olympias, daresssssss you to try ssssssssssssssleeping with her.

>[Olympias](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Coin_olympias_mus_theski.JPG), though not yet eighteen [**at the time of her marriage to Philip II of Macedon**], had already emerged as a forceful, not to say eccentric, personality. She was, among other things, passionately devoted to the orgiastic rites of Dionysus, and her Maenadic frenzies can scarcely have been conducive to peaceful domestic life. >One of her more *outré* habits (unless, as has been suggested, it had a ritual origin) was keeping an assortment of large tame snakes as pets. To employ these creatures on religious occasions could raise no objections; but their intermittent appearance in Olympias’ bed must have been a hazard calculated to put even the toughest bridegroom off his stroke. __________________________ **Source:** Green, Peter. “Philip of Macedon.” Alexander of Macedon: 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography. Univ. of California Press, 2005. 30. Print. __________________________ **Further Reading:** [Ὀλυμπιάς (Olympias)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympias)