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Salome 1st century AD
Judean princess
She was the granddaughter of Herod the Great and daughter of Herodias by her first husband, Herod Philip, who was the brother of her second husband, Herod Antipas. She is identified by the historian Josephus as the girl in Mark 6.17-28 and Matthew 14.1-12 who danced before Herod Antipas and at her mother's instigation demanded the head of John the Baptist, who had denounced the marriage with Antipas. She is the subject of a play (1894) by Oscar Wilde, which in turn provided the libretto for an opera by Richard Strauss (1905).
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