Salome

Salome

Salome, also known as Salome III, was a Jewish princess, the daughter of Herod II and princess Herodias. She was a granddaughter of Herod the Great and the stepdaughter of Herod Antipas. She is known from the New Testament, where she is not named, and from an account by the Roman Jewish historian Josephus. In the New Testament, she is known as the stepdaughter of Herod Antipas who demands and receives the head of John the Baptist. According to Josephus, she was first married to her uncle Philip the Tetrarch, after whose death in AD 34, she married her cousin Aristobulus of Chalcis, thus becoming queen of Armenia Minor.

Salome (play)

Salome is a one-act tragedy by Oscar Wilde. The original version of the play was first published in French in 1893; an English translation was published a year later. The play depicts the attempted seduction of Jokanaan by Salome, stepdaughter of Herod Antipas; her dance of the seven veils; the execution of Jokanaan at Salome's instigation; and her death on Herod's orders.

Salome

Proper noun

1. A name ascribed to the stepdaughter of Herod who asked for the execution of John the Baptist.
2. A woman mentioned in Mark 16:1, present at the crucifixion of Christ.