Despite Josephus ' account , she was not consistently called Salome until the nineteenth century when Gustave Flaubert ( following Josephus ) referred to her as `` Salome '' in his short story `` Herodias '' .
The name `` Salome '' is given to the stepdaughter of Herod Antipas ( unnamed in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark ) in Josephus ' Jewish Antiquities ( Book XVIII , Chapter 5 , 4 ) : Despite the early date of this account , she was not consistently called Salome until the nineteenth century , when Gustave Flaubert ( following Josephus ) referred to her as Salome in his play Herodias ( 1876 ) .