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Salome

Biblical daughter of Herod II and Herodias (14–62)

  • Fame58.2
  • Momentum0.1
  • Wikipedia52.7K
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Lived 14–62, aged 48
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    45 languages
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  • Era
    14–62
    Aged 48
Summary
Updated 2026-06-08

She danced for her stepfather and asked for a prophet's head on a platter. The New Testament never names her, but centuries of artists, composers, and playwrights turned that single biblical scene into obsession—Wilde wrote a play, Strauss an opera, painters couldn't stop.

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Salome was a Jewish princess, daughter of Herod II and Herodias, granddaughter of Herod the Great. At her stepfather Herod Antipas's birthday celebration, she danced and was promised anything she wanted. At her mother's urging, she demanded the head of John the Baptist. The historian Josephus records she later married her uncle Philip the Tetrarch, and after his death in AD 34, married her cousin Aristobulus of Chalcis, becoming queen of Armenia Minor. That single dance echoed across centuries: Titian and Gustave Moreau painted her, Oscar Wilde wrote his 1891 play, Richard Strauss composed the…

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Salome
saidundated
(To Herod Antipas) I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.
— Gospel of Mark 6:25 NKJV.
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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58.2
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Momentum0.1
Historical25.7
Now attention27.1
Source confidence65.0
Completeness65.0
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  • Wikipedia
    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
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  • Wikidata
    wikidata · wikidata.org
    High confidence
  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
    High confidence