Definitions

1. Agrippa is a character in William Shakespeare 's play Antony and Cleopatra and also a main character in the early part of Robert Graves novel I, Claudius. (Web site)
2. Agrippa (Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa), a follower of Caesar in Antony and Cleopatra, proposes that the widowed Antony should marry Octavia.
3. Agrippa was an able statesman who succeeded in dissuading Caligula from placing a golden statue of himself in the Temple in Jerusalem. (Web site)
4. Agrippa is the most influential writer of Renaissance esoterica.
5. Agrippa is a lunar impact crater that is located at the southeast edge of the Mare Vaporum. (Web site)

Nine Children

1. VII. He had to wife Agrippina, daughter of Marcus Agrippa and Julia, who bore him nine children. (Web site)

Mother

1. Agrippa through his mother, was a descendant of the Kingdom of Commagene. (Web site)

Emperor Claudius

1. Between 41 and 44 CE, Iudaea regained its nominal autonomy, when Herod Agrippa was made King of the Jews by the emperor Claudius.

Surviving Inscriptions

1. Surviving inscriptions on Agrippa reveals that his family were related to important members of Asian, non-Jewish and Jewish aristocracy. (Web site)

Occulta Philosophia

1. Man inscribed in a pentagram, from Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 's Libri tres de occulta philosophia. (Web site)

Paracelsus

1. In particular, Paracelsus rejected the magic theories of Agrippa and Flamel; Paracelsus did not think of himself as a magician and scorned those who did. (Web site)
2. In particular, Paracelsus rejected the magic theories of Agrippa and Flamel.

Eulogia Doctorum Virorum

1. Paulus Jovius, in his "Eulogia Doctorum Virorum," says, that the devil, in the shape of a large black dog, attended Agrippa wherever he went.

Abila

1. In a. D. 53, Agrippa II obtained Abila, "which last had been the tetrarchy of Lysanias" (Ant., XX., vii, 1). (Web site)

Agrippa Governor

1. In 39 or 38 BC, Octavian appointed Agrippa governor of Transalpine Gaul, where in 38 he put down a rising of the Aquitanians. (Web site)

Statesman Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa

1. Drusus was the first grandchild of statesman Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and his first wife Caecilia Attica.

Menenius Agrippa

1. Menenius Agrippa is a friend and supporter of Coriolanus in his political struggles, in Coriolanus.

Young Agrippa

1. XXII. Tiberius did not make the death of Augustus public until the young Agrippa had been disposed of.

Vipsania Marcella

1. He was married to Vipsania Marcella, daughter of Octavian's lieutenant Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, and became a personal friend of both Agrippa and Octavian.
2. He was the widower of Vipsania Marcella, who was a daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and by his second wife Claudia Marcella Major, niece of Augustus.

Occult Philosophy

1. Agrippa wrote De Libro Quatro De Occulta Philosophia, four books of occult philosophy, and that was the core work for European magic. (Web site)

Nettesheim

1. Agrippa of Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius - Described as a "knight, doctor, and by common reputation, a magician".

Camillo Agrippa

1. Pacheco makes the claim that Carranza based his text on the work of Camillo Agrippa in a letter to the Duke of Cea in Madrid on May 4, 1618.
2. There is historical evidence indicating that Camillo Agrippa 's work was the inspiration for the Spanish school of swordplay.

Vipsania Agrippina

1. Likewise, her eldest half-sisters (Vipsania Agrippina and Vipsania Marcella) were named after their father Vipsanius (Agrippa).

Cornelius Agrippa

1. Passing the River is yet a third magic alphabet based on Hebrew that was included by Cornelius Agrippa in Book III, Chapter XXX of his Occult Philosophy. (Web site)
2. T rithemius' work had considerable influence on later Renaissance writings on magic, particularly on Cornelius Agrippa. (Web site)

Postumus Agrippa

1. The first crime of the new reign was the murder of Postumus Agrippa.

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

1. One of these men who emerged at the beginning of the sixteenth century was named Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa.
2. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535) is the most influential writer of Renaissance esoterica, and indeed all of Western occultism. (Web site)
3. The position taken by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, one of the foremost Renaissance magicians, is notoriously ambiguous.

Agrippa Postumus

1. At the same time, Agrippa Postumus, the last son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, is also adopted and named as Augustus' heir.
2. It is believed that he did not adopt his youngest son, Agrippa Postumus, so that his old friend would have a son to carry on the family name. (Web site)

Architect

1. Augustus famously declared that "found Rome brick and left it marble," but it is his friend, Agrippa (Ken Duken) who apparently expires to be an architect. (Web site)
2. Camillo Agrippa was a noted fencer, architect, engineer and mathematician of the Renaissance.

Caesarea

1. Herod Agrippa I had trouble with Tyre, and a deputation came to visit him at Caesarea (Acts 12:20). (Web site)

Naval

1. Mylae was (36 B.C.) the scene of a naval victory of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa over Sextus Pompeius.

Sicily

1. Agrippa received the honor of a naval crown for his services in Sicily.
2. He presented Marcus Agrippa with a blue banner in Sicily after his naval victory. (Web site)

Greece

1. The early months passed without notable event, beyond some successes of Agrippa on the coasts of Greece, meant to divert Antony's attention. (Web site)

Command

1. Agrippa returned to Greece where he assumed command of the Macedonian legions (most notably the Legio IIII) and marched them to Rome.
2. Octavian gained a preliminary victory in early 31 BC when the navy under command of Agrippa successfully ferried their troops across the Adriatic Sea. (Web site)

East Side

1. The ruined crater Tempel lies to the northeast, on the east side of Agrippa. (Web site)

Apostles

1. Herod Agrippa I persecutes the apostles; the apostle James is killed. (Web site)

Name

1. For a list of individuals with this name, see Agrippa (disambiguation). (Web site)
2. Bereni'ce. The mother of Agrippa, whose name occurs in the history of the Jews as daughter- in-law of Herod the Great. (Web site)
3. He had an elder brother whose name was also Lucius Vipsanius Agrippa, and a sister named Vipsania Polla. (Web site)

East

1. Agrippa had been favored when Augustus was ill in 23 BC and subsequently went East with a grant of imperium proconsulare, a share in Augustus's own powers.
2. Thus Agrippa became one of the greatest princes of the east, the territory he possessed equalling in extent that held by his grandfather Herod the Great.
3. Godin is a lunar impact crater located just to the south of Agrippa crater, on a rough upland region to the east of Sinus Medii.

Small Island

1. There has never been a clear consensus on why it happened, but in 9 AD, Augustus banished Agrippa to the small island of Planasia. (Web site)
2. Augustus banished Postumus Agrippa to the small island of Planasia (around 6 or 7 AD), and Tiberius was recalled to Rome and officially adopted by Augustus. (Web site)

Senate

1. Agrippa spoke before the senate and convinced the senators to accept Claudius as Imperial Caesar. (Web site)

Spain

1. Late life The theatre at Merida, Spain; it was promoted by Agrippa, built between 16 and 15 BC. (Web site)
2. Roman legions under the command of Marcus Agrippa gain a decisive victory over the Cantabrian in Spain after a long and difficult campaign.

Hispania

1. In 19 BC, Agrippa was employed in putting down a rising of the Cantabrians in Hispania (Cantabrian Wars).

Admiral

1. Octavian's fleet of smaller, more maneuverable vessels was under the command of Marcus Agrippa, the proven admiral who excelled against Sextus Pompey.
2. Octavian has accused Sextus Pompey of breaking his 3-year-old agreement and promoted Agrippa to admiral.

Fleet

1. But Octavianus was well served by the commander of his fleet, M. Vipsanius Agrippa. (Web site)
2. There he met the fleet of Octavian, led by Admiral Agrippa, arranged to block his exit in an arc from the south.

Rhine

1. Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, under order of Octavian, successfully quelled an uprising along the Rhine.
2. Octavian solidified his position in the West, using Marcus AGRIPPA in Gaul and on the Rhine to quell revolts. (Web site)

Cologne

1. After the campaign, Agrippa resettled the Ubians on the west bank of the Rhine, and founded Cologne.
2. Agrippa of Nettesheim was born of a once-noble family near Cologne, and studied both medicine and law there, apparently without taking a degree.

First

1. Agrippa easily outmaneuvered Antony, and Cleopatra was the first to flee, taking her sixty Egyptian ships with her.

Consul

1. Domitia bore Agrippa a son, Quintus Haterius Antoninus, became consul in 53.
2. Before 109, Agrippa served as a Praetorian Guard, before his father reached and served as a consul or suffect consul. (Web site)
3. His partner Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa becomes consul for the third time.

Syria

1. Agrippa of course left Rome, but he stopped at Mitylene in the island of Lesbos, leaving the government of Syria to his legate.

Reign

1. In 28 BC Octavian and Agrippa held a census of the civil population, the first of three during the reign. (Web site)
2. It was built during the reign of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, and his name is inscribed on the structure.
3. Coins from the reign of Agrippa II.

Caligula

1. Agrippa also became a friend of Caligula, Tiberius's heir.

Marriage

1. The victim was Agrippa Postumus, Julia's son by her previous marriage to Augustus' commander and companion, Agrippa.

Divorce

1. Agrippa died in 12 BC, and Tiberius was ordered by Augustus to divorce his wife Vipsania Agrippina and marry the twice widowed Julia. (Web site)

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1. Octavian
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