digitalsakura

4 months ago

salome was a jewish princess, the daughter of herod ii, who was the son of herod the great, with princess herodias. she was granddaughter of herod the great, and stepdaughter of herod antipas. she is known from the new testament, where she is not named, and from an account by flavius josephus. in the new testament, the stepdaughter of herod antipas 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 (ad 34) she married her cousin aristobulus of chalcis, thus becoming queen of armenia minor.