Born: c63 BC
Died: 12 AD
Father: Lucius? Vipsanius?
Mother: ?
Spouse: Julia Agrippina, Major of Rome (gdau of Augustus)
Children:
Portrait at right from VHotW p121 ===>>
Born: c63 BC
Father: Lucius? Vipsanius? Spouse: Julia Agrippina, Major of Rome (gdau of Augustus)
Children:
Portrait at right from VHotW p121 ===>> |
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It looks like he acquired the name 'Agrippa' from his marriage to Julia Agrippina.
tIoJC: After the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BC, there was a long power struggle and civil war (see JuCaesar.html), finally resolved when Octavian decisively defeated Marc Antony and Cleopatra in a huge sea battle near Actium, in W Greece, in the spring of 31 [with the aid of his friend, the military strategist Marcus Agrippa 99]. Antony and Cleopatra fled to Alexandria and soon afterward, with Octavian closing in on them, they took their own lives" (98). Octavian became Rome's first emperor (i.e. Imperator Augustus Caesar or 'The Great Victor and Ruler'), and after 15 yrs of civil war since Julius Caesar's death, most people were relieved at his imposed order and stability (i.e. happy to trade some freedom). "Under the long line of Augustus's successors, each of whom also took the prestigious title of Caesar, Rome continued to expand until it encompassed 3.5 million square miles and more than 100M people" (100).
On a program called Driving Through History with Dave Stotts (aired Sat. 6 May 2006, TBN ch21, Phx AZ, 8-8:30pm), the host explained that the Pantheon, the oldest continuously standing building in the world (i.e. not a reconstruction), bears the name of M Agrippa, who apparently had it built in honor of 'all the gods' (i.e. meaning of 'pantheon'). The host mentioned Marcus Agrippa's father as Lucius.
From online Yahoo encyclopedia: c63 BC - 12 AD, Roman general. A close friend of Octavian (later Emperor Augustus), he won a name in the wars in Gaul before becoming consul in 37 He organized Octavian's fleet and is generally given much credit for the defeat (36 ) of Sextus Pompeius in the naval battles at Mylae and Naulochus (N Sicily). Agrippa took part in the war against Antony, and his naval operations were the basis of Octavian's decisive victory at Actium in 31 He was perhaps the most trusted of all Augustus' lieutenants and rendered many services, notably in putting down disorders in both the East and West. His third wife was Augustus' daughter Julia. See biography by M. Reinhold (1933).
See also his entry at Wikipedia.
Hmmm, wikipedia says "He was appointed governor of Syria a second time in 17 BC, where his just and prudent administration won him the respect and good-will of the provincials, especially from the Hebrew population." I wonder if the later Herod Agrippa (I aka Marcus Julius Agrippa, whose father had been murdered when the boy was young, causing him to be sent to Rome for training and protection) was connected with Marcus Agrippa?
Sources:
- tIoJC = (The Importance of) Julius Caesar, Don Nardo, Lucent Bks, 1997 (FHL).
- VHotW = Visual History of the World, National Geographic, 2005, FHL.
