Princess of Galilee - Charles Redden Butler Neto, Redden Butle
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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…mehr

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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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Charles was born in Brazil in a small town in the highlands, the son of missionary parents. Like Salome, he has lived in multiple countries. He traveled to Europe in college, and wandered Capri and the streets of Rome. He speaks English, Portuguese, some Spanish, and signs American Sign Language. He studied Hebrew in seminary, and took two years of Latin. He has studied Brazilian sign language and has worked at linguistic conferences in Brazil, having to work, as an interpreter, through many points of view. Charles currently lives in Hyattsville, MD, a suburb of Washington, DC, with his husband and five cats in a quiet suburban neighborhood with neighbors of multiple ethnicities. Like Galilee, Washington, DC is a crossroad of multiple worlds, religions, and rulers, not that different than 2000 years ago. Salome could live next door and might just change the world.