Oscar Wilde got it wrong. The famous dancer of seven veils did not
die in the fall of Jerusalem, but of old age in a villa in Greece.
Salome, daughter of Herodias, and princess of Galilee, survived her
infamous dance to become the toast of Rome.
We often embroider our characters in history with all sorts of
by-play, innuendo, and presumption. Salome has come down to us as a
strumpet - a girl without a motive, a toy. However, what was she
really like? We can piece together from history a person who wove
her own story, stood up for herself when no one else would, and
knew everyone. She lived with three kings, was presented at the
court of four emperors, and was made a Basilia, (client queen), of
the Roman Empire. Coins survive with her portrait, twinned with her
husband Aristobolus, a signal honor for a woman of her time.
Her unique dishing out of justice at her stepfather's famous
birthday banquet has made her a legend, but know the facts. Her
just desserts were a kingdom and a crown, a villa, and a peaceable
old age.
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