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Curious Mothers Day Story

Salome and Herodias

A curious MOTHER'S DAY HISTORY ©

Reprinted with permission of Women Insightful Online ©
April 2003 issue, Volume 3: Number 2
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Barbara Nell

First, a warning:

This article requires information about John the Baptist, whose life and works and words are sacred, divinely inspired, to Christians. The sources I've visited are religious, historical, literary, exegetical, and anecdotal. In order to avoid the lack of respect for the sanctity of words and concepts that Christians have the Gospel and the Jews to keep Torah, I changed the name, both 'essays translated. I also use the euphemism, monotheistic God, to avoid any disrespect to any deity or religion. This is a test designed to entertain and inform you, dear reader, not to cause or encourage any religious debate.

Secondly, thanks:

Pam friend and friend of Vanessa, both of which got my juices ongoing research on Salome, whom I believed, was trivial, too trivial even for our newsletter. Was reduced to "Who did she do belly dancing for what, I had no idea because I did not think it was real. Both assured me that was a real person. I looked out. Yes, it was real and ...

... she may have danced or may not have danced. But if he did the dance, not a belly dance she did, nor was it a tap, the tango, or the Quick Step. The aspect of belly dancing was imagined in the 19th century by an artistic type, and we will come later when appropriate. She did bring out, that's true, and acted as host, her stepfather, urged by the housewife, mother, and their guests banquet.

It was an interlude of entertainment, and occurred around the 1st century AD in a castle in the area called Galilee. She could have made a play about a Greek mythological character or she may have been the that Bedouins (Guest) on a group of artists Bedouin dances that he did not like seeing the Bedouins. If it was the first, the structure of the work was hard: it was a pantomime, instrumental rope to keep the story line goes, mime actors of both sexes, all adults, and young children of both acrobatics sexes. All were masked. This was a group of professional entertainers on the list of biggies, not a group travel (a type not yet invented). They were probably in the payroll of his stepfather and had time to practice with them before the banquet.

If the latter, was a dance, one with a lot of head spinning and throwing by women in heavy blue robes with hoods, and there was a flute accompaniment. The company does not live in the Galilee, but were the nomads of the desert between the Galilee and Spain, which had been requested by the biggie. It is unlikely that the Bedouin dancers participated in this feast, because I had to walk a fine line in migrations of the desert, the land that adjoined those of the Galilee and Spain at the time there was bad blood between Aretas IV, king of Arabia and Antipas, Salome's stepfather, The Tetrarch of Galilee, the place where the feast and the fun took place and where he lived Salome. And Salome would not have had time to practice drawing head and firing before the banquet.

So, it was a play on the Roman-style Greek mythology was probably made as the intermediate event between courses or the closing ceremony of an elegant banquet. Herodias The host, her stepfather, Herod Antipas was a call (not as tall as a king) and the owner home, his mother was named (a former Queen, divorced his 1 husband, Philip, a king, and now married to a simple tetrarch, making it a Tetrarchess, I guess). These were minor players in the political landscape of the times "and the definition of 'Posh' was in relation to his height ... minor. The guest list included: the nobles visiting from Rome, the Roman nobles stationed in Galilee to Rome, the aristocrats of Galilee and Judea, perhaps, and Antipas Steward, Cusa. Some sources say that the banquet was launched by Herodias, because it was the birthday of Antipas, an unnecessary adornment, to my way of thinking. Most sources stored silence about the reason for the banquet, so they tend to go with the majority when it is a fact of this kind.

Any meal takes preparation, if you're a queen, a Tetrarchess, or just the wife of a melancholy. So, along with the calendar, guest list, menu, food preparation, and seating plan, Herodias prepared for entertainment. She had to decide that participation of Salome in the show would be that much can be done before that the banquet took place. Herodias is described as an intelligent type of benign Gal by the tellers of the story (she is reviled by the majority) and Salome was her single child (Phillip), so you probably made time to see test Salome. A lot was going on very well be real Salome. Nothing anywhere says Salome if I wanted to be part of the show or was not willing to be part of the fun.

Herodias planned a serious case of Rome. It could have been a bacchanalian banquet type (similar in this Wild on E!), as some sources suggest. There were strict rules about women Roman of high birth and what they can come and do as that assistance. Herodias was high born and Judea. (Antipas, her second husband, was not as high-born, coming from a father Edomite and possibly a mother of Samaria.)

Salome was only a child at the banquet. Some sources say she was a teenager, but they have to other parts of the legend to fit. (We'll the other parts later.) I doubt if she was a nubile teenager. She was royalty, a princess, in fact, with very good blood through her mother, the blood of the Maccabees, who was respected even by Rome, which, incidentally, had conquered Judea (and the Galilee) long before this time and made this region part of his empire. Decorum and chastity were required for this type of woman from a Roman point of view and a view of the Maccabees (their bloodline was matriarchal). It had to be obedient, respectful, and learn at the knee of her mother, an important custom among the women of the Maccabees. He was a good boy. Therefore could not have been a teenager and instrumental out. It would diminish their value in the future in the marriage market, Roman or not, and would have been a sin. I would say it had to be younger, when Nadia Comaneci to Olympic judges were flown in 1976, but was probably as agile.

Herodias is likely recognized the agility of her daughter long before the banquet, so that children have a tendency to show what is good in a long time before there is an application of the trend. It could have been a setback when genetic before the Maccabees were promoted to the rank, the time when men were about the best guerrilla fighters in Judea and found the mountainous regions of excellent all terrain Judea to lure their enemies in combat. He was probably proud of this trend and this trend tedious ( "Look at me, Mom," a Once too often can be tedious.) and smart enough to see a use for his own good. This also assumes that Herodias could have had more contact in the education of mothers Salome high-born Roman, women were responsible for the Mace of gender (two) children to "learn his knee "a minimum of 613 required standards the monotheistic God of adherents, or that there was little contact between mothers and daughters of rank at that time. In any case, Herodias planned meal and entertainment and included his daughter agile in entertainment, ensuring that Salome tested and would make a good job the child acrobatic troop ... multitasking real woman.

Protocol in the luxury and formal banquets which mucks invited strict Roman was dirty. This would have been very important to Antipas, too. He had grown up in Rome (maybe even a child hostage taking) and the land it manages in the time of the banquet had bequeathed to him by Rome. Augustus (of Cleopatra's story) had tried sharing their father's property when he enormous Antipas, called Herod the Great, died. Antipas was not happy with the way goods are distributed Poppa, he felt that now was the short stick between his four brothers. (There was). It would have been very, very Roman in this Roman banquet to make this nice and return to Rome.

The men were lying in the boat century equivalent of 1-loungers and ate beautiful things charming and drank wine in moderation, while trade funny stories and jokes to each other. I'm not sure exactly what he is joking, but I sure he was joking. They are arranged in a horseshoe pattern U. The women guests and their hostess would have sat in chairs and I could not figure out where they were placed chairs, inside the horseshoe in a line or outside the horseshoe in a line. But in any case would have been sitting in fantasy, but hard to support, chairs in a line and have not eaten or drunk wine, but I suggest they may have joked. His job was to sit, all gussied and smellin 'good. (They eat and drink, later, when they came home, or when the guests left, depending on your point of view.)

Salome could not have been invited. If she had been invited, she would no longer luxury, hard-backed chair empty in order to come in costume and perform. Antipas would have noticed the empty chair and have asked someone, "Where is the child?" And somebody had said: "She's going to do." Who have taken the drama of the next part of history. Let's agree, that was not invited to the banquet.

At the appropriate time, the work was performed, and the audience applauded after the was over. Antipas, congratulated the performers, then a single one out. Because it was Salome, who was allowed, I that was one of the masked acrobats. It only makes sense. Antipas, apparently does not recognize the stepdaughter had raised from infancy as Acrobat excellent in the game. More well, she thought one of the professionals, because if he had recognized, have not been given the gift Eward. He just have said, "Okay, honey. Ve washing. You'll catch cold. "Therefore, because he did not recognize, he made a magnanimous gesture (It is unlikely that he was showing off for guests, not to Antipas was a doodle of his head, he think things through. We'll get to that later.), And he held the Acrobat-Salomé wanted anything as a gift him for his fine performance. This is exactly what Herodias had planned to spend. She knew his type very well and knew his daughter well. The benign tellers were right: it was a smart girl.

Since all sources attribute what comes next, as generated by Herodias, the acrobat-Salome had to have asked him to wait a minute and should have gone to the line of the chair where his mother and other women were sitting, otherwise not been associated Herodias with what comes next. (It would have been only Salome who are associated with what comes next.). So mother and daughter had to have conferred on silence, while Antipas (and guests) watched. Perhaps, Salome said, "Euwww" as children, when they hear something disgusting, or maybe not. She was a child 1st century and may have been different from the children of the 21st century. I think not. Children are children. She said "Euwww. Dutifully listened attentively what he told his mother and she repeated it again probably Herodias, so what went right and straight. Then she, the acrobat-Salome, returned to Antipas with Gift idea: the long time head of the prisoner, John (who later became John the Baptist, but it was just that the inmate John at this time) on a tray (it was probably not a dish, but a charger).

Salome is possible to recognize at this point. It does not matter. I know he knew he had been created by his wife, Herodias, through this acrobat-Salome, when he learned of the execution reward. And he was scared and embarrassed and in a public dilemma. You may question the Acrobat-Salome with 'Are you kidding? type of question, while looking in the direction Herodias, who either shrugged shoulders and nodded 'yes'. From a legal standpoint, not required to comply with this request acrobat Salome, as it was not her. It Herodias. You may Chuza, his steward, who jumped into this point as it had been funding the ministry of John nascent through his wife, Elizabeth, but it is only possible, it did not, for that's not how it was.

Everyone knew that the banquet was a big crazy between Herodias and Antipas as John for a long time, long time. She had wanted him dead in the act of speaking often and bad of her and her marriage with Antipas to everyone and anyone who would listen. John incestuous and had marked it was in type, but only on a technicality, the small print of a big contract, long time. The first husband of Herodias, Herod that the we are calling Phillip, was the half brother of Antipas. They shared the same father, Herod the Great, but different mothers. Phillip was still living in Judea, where was King (Rome gave him a great part of the inheritance from his father, bigger than Antipas ..) and while Philip lived, Herodias and Antipas was an incestuous marriage. As soon he died, would be a good marriage. But he had not died yet.

Although the rumor was that bothered Herodias (A good doctor who have contributed money, but they were 2000 years down the road of development.) was the religious turn John put on technical incest bother Antipas. John attributes all things went wrong in the Galilee since their marriage (and that had gone wrong, for Antipas was a doodle-head) for marriage. And, John said the monotheistic God was angry with her, most of Antipas, because of its good blood Maccabees (a mixture of Idumea and Samaria blood results in a monotheistic God who does not expect much of), and to stay angry with her and get more, so anger spills onto the whole of Galilee, until she and Antipas divide (or, I suppose, until Philip died, a factor that was out of hand).

People listened to that sort of thing then and there and that is very frightened. The anger of a monotheistic God was a terrible thing. Hunger, drought, disease, pestilence, floods, invasions, even eclipse - anything can happen when a monotheistic God was angry. While there was been famine, drought, disease, pestilence, floods, invasion, or even an eclipse in the Galilee, Antipas had lost a war, the first, Nabatean, its neighbor in Arabia.

Herodias could have been a vulnerable position that the important people had listened to the predictions of John. Fortunately for her, important people who had other things on his mind. Antipas said 'no' to kill John and 'yes' to imprison him, thinking he shut up John. Some sources said Antipas had the feeling that the predictions of John were true, others say he had an idea of the monotheistic deity. And others say he only acted as a political animal, particularly a fox. In any case, John was not dead but in prison, and had been languishing in jail for many years at the time of the banquet.

Now, killing a local prisoner was no big deal anywhere in the world 1st century Roman Empire and died a prisoner for reward an agile acrobat extends the idea of reward, but ... might work. The thing is that the head in a footnote that plattercharger was made more agreement. This contact was a horrible sight indeed brutal, dramatic which would cause a scandal and gossip from all over Judea and in Rome, which Antipas was not necessary if have more land once the estate of his dead father in Rome. (And he did, by Josephus in his book "Antiquities", written in Rome about 100 years after the event, including when it was still so juicy. This, of course, is how we know about some parts of it.) (An important question I can think of and that is: How and where to get Herodias this notion? Two ideas come to mind: (1) the Greek myth of Perseus and Medusa and her fight to the death: Perseus won. Beheaded Medusa and shook his head and carried it around a lot of places as a talisman. It must have been terrible after a while. Perhaps where did it because it was a good education. (2) A similar event took place in Rome 50 years ago: Pemejus, a political rival to July, lost his battle politics, and brought his enemies Julius Caesar winner with his head. You might have heard this rumor. Perhaps, she then adapted so decapitation pragmatics of the situation at hand. Decapitation was a popular type of death and a kind of honor to the execution of criminals and warriors, between the Romans and the Maccabees and Arabs. This, I discovered, from plunking around on the Internet to some very strange websites. I do not recommend you see for yourself. In fact, I can not imagine where did that ornament. One of these sites strange calls his talent.)

Doodle-head met.

A messenger was sent to Fort Macharerus call (now called Mukawir) in an area called La Perea (now part of Amman, Jordan), where John was imprisoned. An unnamed guard, cut off his head, and got a messenger to convey the castle somewhere in the Galilee, where the banquet guests were waiting, men still teasing each other, I suppose, to pass the time, women still sitting quietly in their chairs hard, smellin 'good. The acrobat-Salome was probably somewhere to bathe and change clothes, then returned to the banquet room to be with her (talented) Momma or standing with the artists. The guards put the headless body somewhere, waiting new orders.

I could not understand how far the area's Parea was from Galilee, because he could not say exactly what city the castle was situated in the area known as the Galilee, then, the area where the feast took place. We believe that it was not terribly far away, so the messenger transport of the head can get from there to there quickly. He came to an official from the kitchen and brought a plattercharger (No one knows whether it was a fountain made of silver, gold, porcelain or stoneware. In fact, nobody cared. Moreover, there may have been a dish, but a charger, which is larger than a smaller plate and a plate and rested on a plate in a service table and it was often precious metals. Since it is a Roman banquet, people took bits of this and that from shippers servant of all, no table service at all. They sat.) Another servant, a type of service, brought the head to the banquet hall and stood in front of Antipas. It is possible that the servant went to Acrobat-Salome, who took the plattercharger and gave his mother. A source editor makes it even more frightening Herodias saying she has a sword and stabbed the tongue. This is an ornament that even Josephus did not believe, so it does not mention it. What really did with it, I do not know. (People who thought John had a direct line to the monotheistic God asked his body and head of Antipas, who launched the two sides to them. He was taken to an area called Samaria, which was close to Perea, and buried it.)

What happened after this part of the banquet was held, I do not know. I imagine a guy yawned and said: "It was left overnight. I think it's time get going. "And all the guests went to their lodgings. is likely to Antipas and Herodias had a long conversation, after the guests left. When left alone in their private rooms, it is likely that opened the conversation with: "We never talk anymore, Herodias. Tell me what's going on with you." Salome, who was until long after their normal bedtime was probably too tired and went to sleep or put to sleep immediately.

And there do. Salome was not dancing, not wearing a veil, and had a strong bond with his mother.

To learn how to belly dance was associated with Salome, we have to get away from it. It is Herodias and John, who carry the storyline forward.

At the time of the banquet, Herodias was the 2nd wife Antipas, and who had been married for 10 years. (Antipas was the only father of Salome had known.) Salome was the biological father of Philip, who was king of Judea, a large land mass, much larger than the area called Galilee, and he and Herodias divorced when Salome was about 1 year old. Herodias had been a wealthy woman when Philip was named king of Rome because of his blood Maccabees. The Maccabees had been rulers of Judea, long before Philip came on board, but through a lot of circumstances, Judea was ruled by Herod the firing and had accepted the yoke of Rome at that time. The Maccabees are prolific (as Herod the Great) and had a large number of women entitled to Maccabean rulers to marry. It was a stable region in the Roman Empire. In any case, the divorce was with the permission of Rome. Phillip allowed to marry another person with the permission of Rome, and I check out who. He never asked for visitation rights.

Some sources say that Antipas, Herodias, Herodias was when he met on a trip to Rome Rome Phillip requests for something or other, while Antipas was in Rome (only) complaint Rome, once again, the title of king and more land from the estate of his father, or that Rome never granted him his life. I believe that no matter how met. They met, talked, the agreement reached.

I do not know why Herodias left kingdom of Judea to become a wife Tetrarch. Always sources attribute the lust for this kind of situation, and these sources are produced in this history, some attribute the lust Herodias, others attribute to lust Antipas. Personally, meeting lust is the wrong reason. A queen, a real blood, not just lust. She thinks power and lineage. The Tetrarch, although not as powerful as a king, not have to go far from his little castle, including as Judea, to satisfy a lustful thought. The Tetrarch unhappy thinks power and lineage, too. Maybe it was his blood ties Maccabees Maccabees and Antipas thought that would help him become a king of a territory that included Judea, that of his ancestors before Rome ruled Herod put there. Perhaps he thought that the Galilee, Judea, more is bigger than just Judea. Perhaps he thought that the Galilee, over Arabia, which adjoined the Galilee is larger than Judea Antipas should go to war over Arab territory. In any case, Phillip left before the divorce (which came through quickly) and the area was negligible Antipas, Galilee.

He also jumped the gun. Antipas was not yet rid of his first wife, Phasaelis when Herodias and baby's arrival. And no, he had petitioned Rome to escape Phasaelis and marry Herodias. Although Phasaelis blood was a princess and daughter of a neighbor powerful and King, Aretas IV Nabatea (Arabia), Rome Antipas decided to avoid simply "set aside" a disgrace. This was not pleasant. Phasaelis went home to dad (and took the children, if there were any with her and Antipas), who bided his time a little, and then attacked the Galilee, due to shame.

Troops of all the sons of Herod the Great (half-brother to a man) stepped in to help troops in Galilee, even Phillip (inherited the family land was a big thing, a ex-wife had nothing) and the Roman legions took to help, too. But the land was lost and that, by definition, means the Galileans lost the war. He Phasaelis never did divorce and she never returned to him.

Herodias stayed and married her and Antipas (with the permission of Rome, whose attitude towards the provinces was very pragmatic: the war is over, but lost, let 'em get married, who cares) and lived in a castle somewhere in the Galilee with the baby.

Antipas's reputation went from uncomfortable to miserable pest in the eyes of Rome because of this double screw up (stupid and unnecessary dishonor the daughter of a neighbor who causes him a bunch of useless expenses sheet Rome and lose ground to a king who was conquered by Rome). Decided to do better. Tiberius Caesar was now Antipas decided to build a city after him. He seized the land in the Galilee and its people from the building began to build a city. However, Antipas and its construction contractors either do not do their homework, or if they did not think about it. The land on which the city was being built was a cemetery, sacred land of each person in the world, both then and today. There was an uprising among the people of that local troops could not quell. Again, Rome had Antipas to help, not in Judea, because the side of people, not Antipas. People were suffocated and the city was built. It remained uninhabited. Nobody going to live there, no matter how sweet the pool created Antipas (free housing, free land, reduced taxes). Rome had to send troops to forcibly move families to Tiberius and to protect not to move in the dark of night. Josephus liked this snack a lot when he heard it. She looked around and then the comments were recruited to populate riffraff the city. Note that even the riffraff were afraid of a monotheistic God, so holy that local people made a rule: only the new settlers were contaminated during 7 days, then everything would be fine.

And he lived in the Galilee.

John, during some of this, is dedicated to business in the Galilee. One thing in particular that made people caught in between. Nobody knew what to call it, so I had two different names: irrigation and wash-ing, which were already accepted in the Most of the rites of purification, if not all, religions, before time and during that time in that area and most of the known world. The water was always the agent Cleaning and John
used in the nearby Jordan River as the spray and wash-ing the site. What made John was the total immersion of the body, a new twist, bring people liked, that made sense to them and made them feel good and purified from sins that are past. This total immersion of the body always occurred after John spoke of sin and provide definitions. I would call the penitents, people who wanted to clean themselves. It would be a step forward and in a line, I could do them one by one. It was established as a person who knew what was expected monotheistic deity of good people (mostly was to stop acting like the Romans and return to the roads of Galilee, frequent before Rome took over the area). While he was in prison and after his death, the others did the dive for him. What he had said before he was imprisoned was credible to people.

But then, John was imprisoned and years later was murdered in prison.

Very soon many of the things happened in the Galilee. These events were written and performed by weighted and bright, eloquent, and sincere men, three of whom decided that John and what he said and twist dive was a ceremony that would be important to incorporate as a ritual to their testimony. They were the writers whose words have been translated and pondered for centuries. His decision caused his death to be discussed (and their children, parents, vocation, inspiration, relationships, etc to be determined) and this is how the name of Herodias was never forgotten.

The first editor, a stickler for detail, had a problem with the name of his daughter, when she read Josephus, who says, "a maiden, the daughter of Herodias, brought the head ..." in his book to Rome. This was not what good enough for him. He made a little easy, as Herodias royal lineage was known and available. It was determined that the daughter of Herodias was named Salome. This was the task is not good. Herodias was Maccabees. N Macabeo, man or woman, every time the appointment of a child by a person who is still alive, much less the actual name of a relative, this case, a blood aunt, who lived at the time of her birth daughter. But is all we have, so it must remain poorly named Salome (meaning 'peace' a nice touch, do not you think?) When the beheading of John is talking and when Herodias' offspring is included.

And that's Salome and Herodias and John were bound forever. Many centuries must pass before the triangle comes into focus again. We have to wait for society to move from the old all the way to the modern ... at least 1970 years or so. More specifically, we have to wait for a religion to formalize, we must wait until Contributions of John that become important and are incorporated, we have to wait for the churches to come up, expect to figurative art to be used for something more than decorative purposes, we must allow the bubonic plague interlude when absolutely nothing happened except the death of millions, we have to wait to literacy to occur, we must expect to Gutenberg and his printing press, we have to wait for the portrait to be invented.

Once the churches were invented, figurative art was used as a method to tell the stories to the illiterate people devoted. The triangle story was not as popular as other stories, so it was represented only sometimes. The venue chosen was almost always was when plattercharger occurs is proposed. N one of the characters of the triangle is more important than the other. It is the story behind the scene is important, and that is the death of John (but not as a martyr, I do not think so, but I may be wrong). Typical friezes and frescoes of the churches in the early 14th show scene with figures that are medieval in behavior and costumes. That is what the medieval people need, that's what they got. Their eye can wander through the church for something to focus on whether his attention away from the cult of the hand.

Everything is pretty quiet everywhere early 1330, when the first episode of bubonic plague start and have to wait a long time, about 150 years, from normal to occur.

In 1485, the decapitation surfaces. The portrait had been invented by then, and art has entered the houses of wealthy people who asked the artists to make pictures for them, and they often their families. One type of portrait allows the viewer to be a voyeur, to glimpse an intimate scene, a still picture, if you will, of a larger story, if the artist was good. Religious art was a popular theme. The artist selected a design and had a lot of symbolism to get the whole story line on the canvas. It Salome and plattercharger you have chosen, when this subject is chosen at all, and truth be told,'s awful, static portrait. She is portrayed as a child, but she is depicted as a woman, either. "Maiden", which apparently was interpreted as the twilight zone between a woman has children and women. I do not know why the topic was chosen by the employer or the artist, who apparently could not get into 'it'. I guess my opinion was shared by the patrons of 500 + years ago to this item is extinguished.

John and his holiness, not his death or Herodias and Salome, become the subject of much art, and we must wait until 1630 to find the other triangle represented again.

In 1630, a successful piece of art is (my opinion) that asks you to consider Herodias, not John. It is my favorite, by a man named Francesco del Cairo, "Herodias with the head of John the Baptist." It is so different from everyone else came before (and after). It is sold out, meditation, meditating, or in a trance? A closer look might surprise you. Could you possibly celebrate their language, while at the point of stroking her hair? I think she is. Cairo What might have been thinking? What is it asking us to think about Herodias? Frankly, I do not want to go there. No one else did either, by the representations of Herodias (and Salome), just stop until 1800 and John in his holiness continue ... with one exception.

Because of a single painting of Herodias by Paul Delaroche in 1843, is the literary arts, poets and writers and playwrights, which represent the history and fiction replaces reality. Herodias, first, and Salome, then without John, are the reasons for the first time. They move real people fictional characters.

Delaroche Herodias sample as exotic (read, non-European) (the euphemism used for most any non-European at that time was West.) real (as did his homework.) authentically dressed (task well), and very, very beautiful. The expression on his face is open to interpretation. Grotesque event has occurred or not yet? Is it quiet or is difficult for us to ask her? I do not know who is represented in the fund, as it certainly can not be Salome. Herodias is someone in their own right. I would like to link the interpretation of Delaroche had seen in Cairo (although I do not know if this happened, not have the resources to track the provenance of the picture from Cairo to align its position with the life of Delaroche).

Apparently, Heinrich Heine, German poet of some renown, was delighted with the image. He wrote a poem in 1843, "Atta Troll", which sources say is a mock epic about Herodias. I could not find an English translation, so I have to accept what they say as true sources. What I do know is that an epic is a long and twisted history (the Iliad and Odyssey are epics) about the fantasy adventures of a protagonist (usually heroic) in search of good order. How Heine has enough ideas about Herodias, who was underage in the first place and mysteries of this time to go on and on about his search for a purpose, good or not good, I know. I think that is called talent. In any case, Herodias catapults him (and triangle) back into the artistic minds of people and we do (and triangle) interesting enough to the public contemplation.

This mock epic and Delaroche's painting next delighted Stéphane Mallarmé, another poet of some renown, a Frenchman. Got their juices flowing and wrote a poem in 1869, "Hérodiade" whose English translation I could find. I have absolutely no idea what it says his poem. Critics say she described embarrassing (for the first time). I have to believe that Mallarme West associated with sexy, is not an uncommon association among boys of European fantasy. Herodias is changing the heroic (perhaps if it is epic Heine shows this), the West, and sensual (read sexy).

All that a French artist (of some repute) all excited. Gustave Moreau pondered the triangle and focused on Salome, Herodias instead. He wondered if Herodias was suffocating, then it was more sultry Salome. I do not know why, but that's what he did. He worked and worked this issue and ended with a lot of pictures with it, like (naked) at the focal point for the first time in the representations of Salome, and threw him in the head of John so that everyone understood. To be completed in 1876. All are incredible. The last time Salome was the theme chosen was in the 16th century (bad) picture. He is always holding the plattercharger and looks boring on the face and is dressed in 16th century costume. What the hell mock epic poem of Heine and Mallarme refer with respect to a Salome? Not know.

Anyway, Gustave Flaubert, French writer of some repute, apparently, read Heine and Mallarme and saw the photo of the interpretation of Delaroche and Moreau. All inspired him to write a short story in 1877 about Herodias, which indicates the excellent job indeed. This, I've read, and this story, it is called Jezebel, though an aging one, for the first time. Her daughter is described as similar to his mother in his youth. You can read too. Go to http://www.classicbookshelf.com/library/gustave_flaubert/herodias/0/. Now fiction is open season on Herodias and by association, her daughter, Salome.

Then came Joris-Karl Huysman, who liked what Heine, Mallarme and Flaubert wrote and I liked pictures of Delaroche and Moreau. It was with Salome, Herodias not in 1884, for his essay, "Against the grain." The test is really prose poetry in the style of "The Song of Songs," real, real sexy. The test was labeled decline after publication. You can read, also, as long as you get in the mood of 19th century decadence. Go to http://www.imagi- nation.com/moonstruck/salome1.html.

In the 19th century, Some people add things decadent, especially the types of art that he was besotted with conservative things he felt he had to push the envelope of public taste. This decadent Salome filtering idea for ten years in Oscar Wilde's mind before the game, "Salome" was held in 1893. An interesting touch is the collaboration with Aubrey Beardsley to make art playbill. Wilde was imprisoned was so damn decadent.

Within a year after Wilde's play, Beardsley out with a folio of images of Salome. It is hot for bare breasts and the navel, but is also a curiously clumsy, not sexy posing as Salome. Why What is your belly covered? Why is using high-heeled shoes with bows on the ankle? What the hell is going on here? Excitation Mere, nothing more. What a shame, Beardsley.

Everything rested until 1905, when Richard Strauss, a renowned German music, chose to Salome opera theme. His librettist, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian poet of some renown, put into words the reasons for declining music. A costume designer, whose name I could find, turned its Byzantine East and gave it a twist and a harem costume of 7 veils. A choreographer had her shimmy (belly dance). At the premiere of "Salome" Marie Wittich, widely described as a soprano Salome, declined to dance or wear the suit. An unnamed dancer accommodate the scene and it became a tradition every time the opera was performed. One critic, a word wizard, called Strauss, the apostle of decline. This made people want to see for themselves. Strauss, "Salome" was performed 50 times in the first two years after it was written in the opera houses worldwide.

This chronicle is finished.

PS. A John beheaded, not yet a saint, is so popular it had to find a representation of John with his head. Caravaggio was quite taken with him and not a lot of versions of John with his head.

PS. A female artist, Fra Lippinni, an Italian woman, worked in the Triangle. I'm disappointed with Fra. Although Salome chose be focal, modestly dressed in medieval costume, twirling her skirts. It's a nice picture of anything that says more about Lippinni and lack of inspiration and imagination (she is technically able, I think.) Than in the field. I think he should have tried harder to "get in it. " She was a daughter once and may have been the mother of a daughter at the time the picture was painted.

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