SALOMÈ. – Name of various Jewish women. The best known are:
1. S., Alessandro Ianneo (v.); she reigned Alessandra-Salome (v.).
2. S., GRADO (v.). She drove him to kill his wife Mariamme and his sons Alessandro, Aristobulo, and Antipatro.
3. S., Erodiade (v.) and Erode Filippo (v. FILIPPO ERODE), not named in the Gospels, but presented as the dancing “girl” (κοράσιον) who, on the occasion of Erode Antipa (v.) held at Macheronte, obtained from the tetrarch, at her mother’s advice, the head of Giovanni Battista (Mt. 14, 1-12; Mc. 6, 14-29).
S. subsequently married her uncle Erode Filippo, tetrarch of Iturea, and, after his death (34 A.D.), married her cousin Erode, king of Clacide, by whom she had three sons: Erode, Agrippa, Aristobulo (Fl. Giuseppe, Antiq. Ind., 18, 5, 4; 20, 8, 4). A legend of Nicephorus (Hist. eccl., 1, 20: PG 145, 692) claims that S. perished, beheaded by the ice, while crossing a frozen river.
5. S., LEBBEO (v.), mother of the apostles Giacomo il Maggiore and Giovanni. She was among the devout women who followed Jesus and ministered to him (Mc. 15, 40-41; Lc. 8, 2-3). She asked Jesus for places of honor for her two sons and was rebuked by him (Mt. 20, 20 ff.). She followed the Master on the final journey
(from The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, March 1911, rev. 3)