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Herodias By Guavure
Characterization of Herodias

Stage Name

Birth Name
Herodias Herodias

-- Herodias was not a dancer, but the mother of a infamous dancer named Salome. Herodias is mainly known for incest and the beheading of John the Baptist of Biblical fame. After the death of Herod the Great, Palestine was divided into four parts with Herod Antipas being appointed the ruler of Galilee by Augustus.

-- Herodias was the daughter of Aristobulus who was the son of Herod the Great and Marianne, who was the a descendent of the famous Hasmonean hero ... Machabee. Herodias married her uncle Herod "Phillip"with whom she had a daughter named Salome. Herodias left her husband to have an incestuous affair with another uncle by the name of Herod "Antipas"who was Tetrarch of all Galilee (Jos., Ant. XVIII, v. 1,4).

-- John the Baptist would publicly humiliate Herod Antipas and Herodias with her

affair with Antipas. Herodias would soon hate John the Baptist and want him silenced. Antipas would love to watch Salome dance and offered her anything to watch her perform for him. Salome conferred with her mother who ask her to do the deed. The deed was Salome requested the head of John the Baptist for her mother Herodias. (Matthew, XIV, 3-12 an Mark, VI, 17-29) during a banquet on his birthday.

-- Although Antipas was known for not wanting to cause John the Baptist any harm, he was a man of his word and fulfilled her request. Immediately after her dance, John the Baptist was beheaded with his head being served on a platter to Salome, who laid the platter at her mothers feet. Herodias buried his head in an unclean place, but later, Johanna, wife of Herod's stewart placed the head in a clay vessel, and buried it on the mount of Olives, while his body was buried in Sebaste.

Birth Place

Birth Date

Spouse

Offspring
?Galilee? n/a Herod Phillip See Salome Page
 
Associated

Dance Types

 Salome Dancers

Music Titles
Belly Dance See Salome Page See Salome Page
Dance of the 7 Veils (see Belly Dance) Maude Allen $ Strauss: Salome CD
Veil Dance (see belly dance) Nazimova (Poster)      
      Rita Hayworth (1953)      
      Teresa Stratas      
      Yvonne DeCarlo (1945)      
 

Artists

Theaters

Stage
Gravure (1890) See Salome Page See Salome Page
Henri G. Regnault       1918 & 1922 - Salome (Oscar Wilde's)
Jan van Troyen (1650's)       (Wilde wrote it in 1892, Strauss in 1905)
Leonardo da Vinci        
 

Films

 Writers

Publications
see Salome Herodias - Paul Delaroche
(1797-1856)		 Bible, The (Matthew and Mark)
1923 - Salome (Nazimova) $ Herod Antipas (Hoener)
$1945 - Salome Where She Danced       $ Herod the Great (Ancient Bio's, #1)
$ 1951 - Fate of John The Baptist       $ Herodias (Mallarme) 
$ 1953 - Salome (Hayworth)       $ Salome (Oscar Wilde)
$ 1961 - King of Kings [DVD]       $ Salome (Wilde & Beardsley's)
$1973 - Clive Barkers Salome [DVD]       $ Salome in Full Score (Strauss)
$ 1974 - Salome (Stratas)       See Salome Page 
1981 - Salome (Italian)            
$1987 - Salome (Ciampa)            
$ 1988 - Salome's Last Dance [DVD]            
$1990 - Salome (erotic-Strauss)            
$ 1992 - Salome [DVD]            
$ 1997 - Salome (Malfitano)            
$ 1998 - John The Baptist            
NOTE:Agrippa was the brother of Herodias who later became King.
May 19, 2003
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