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Agrippa (disambiguation)



 
  Agrippa may refer to:

People


Classical era

  • Agrippa (Alba Longa), a semi-mythological king of Alba Longa
  • Menenius Agrippa
    Menenius Agrippa

    Menenius Agrippa was a Ancient Rome of the patrician class. Was consul in 503 BC, with Publius Postumius Tubertus, conquered the Sabines and obtained the honour of a triumph on account of his victory....
    , a Roman consul in 503 BC
  • Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
    Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa

    Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa was a Roman statesman and general. He was a close friend, son-in-law, lieutenant and minister to Octavian, the future emperor Caesar Augustus....
     (63–12 BC), a Roman statesman and general, friend of Caesar Augustus
  • Three sons of the above:
    • Gaius Vipsanius Agrippa (20 BC–AD 4), also known Gaius Julius Caesar
    • Lucius Vipsanius Agrippa
      Lucius Caesar

      Lucius Julius Caesar , most commonly known as Lucius Caesar, was the second son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder. He was born with the name Lucius Vipsanius Agrippa, but when he was adopted by his maternal grandfather Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus, his name was changed to Lucius Julius Caesar....
       (17 BC–AD 2, also known as Lucius Julius Caesar)
    • Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa Postumus (12 BC–AD 14)
  • Gaius Fonteius Agrippa
    Gaius Fonteius Agrippa

    Gaius Fonteius Agrippa was the name of two related people in Roman history:*Gaius Fonteius Agrippa was one of the four accusers of Marcus Scribonius Libo in 16 AD....
    , a father and son with the same name; the former an accuser of Libo, the latter suffect consul in AD 58
  • Decimus Haterius Agrippa
    Decimus Haterius Agrippa

    Decimus or Didius Haterius Agrippa was the son of orator and senator Quintus Haterius. He was tribune of the plebs in 15 and vetoed proposals; was praetor in 17, consul in 22, and later senator....
    , consul in AD 22
  • Marcus Asinius Agrippa
    Marcus Asinius Agrippa

    Marcus Asinius Agrippa was Roman consul in 25 AD, and died at the end of the following year, 26 AD. According to Tacitus, he was descended from a family more illustrious than ancient, and did not disgrace it by his mode of life, although he mentions no specifics....
    , consul in AD 25
  • Vibulenus Agrippa
    Vibulenus Agrippa

    Vibulenus Agrippa was a Roman knight of the Equestrian rank who was accused of some crime, probably treason, before the senate in the final years of the reign of Tiberius, in 36 AD....
    , committed suicide in the Roman senate in AD 36
  • Two kings of the Roman client kingdom Judea:
    • Agrippa I
      Agrippa I

      Agrippa I also called the Great , King of the Jews, was the grandson of Herod the Great, and son of Aristobulus IV and Berenice . His original name was Marcus Julius Agrippa, and he is the king named Herod in the Acts of the Apostles, in the Bible, "Herod " ....
      , (10 BC–AD 44) grandson of Herod the Great
    • Agrippa II
      Agrippa II

      Agrippa II , son of Agrippa I, and like him originally named Marcus Julius Agrippa, was the seventh and last king of the family of Herod the Great, thus last of the Herodians....
      , (AD 27–100), son of Agrippa I
  • Agrippa (astronomer)
    Agrippa (astronomer)

    Agrippa was a Greek people astronomy. The only thing that is known about him regards an astronomical observation that he made in 92 AD, which is cited by Ptolemy ....
    , a Greek astronomer from the late 1st century
  • Agrippa the Sceptic
    Agrippa the Sceptic

    Agrippa was a Sceptic philosopher who probably lived towards the end of the 1st century AD. He is regarded as the author of "five grounds of doubt" or tropes , which are purported to establish the impossibility of certain knowledge....
    , a Sceptic philosopher at the end of the 1st century
  • Agrippa Castor
    Agrippa Castor

    Agrippa Castor has been identified as "the earliest recorded writer against heresy, and apparently the only one who composed a book solely devoted to the refutation of Basilides"....
    , a Christian Roman writer of the 2nd century
  • Marcius Agrippa
    Marcius Agrippa

    Marcius Agrippa was originally a slave serving as a beautician, who later became a freedman in some unknown way, and then started to encroach upon the rank of Equestrian , serving as advocatus fisci during the reign of Septimius Severus....
    , a slave of the 3rd century who was eventually elevated to senatorial rank by Macrinus


Modern era

  • Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
    Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

    Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim was a German magic , occult writer, theology, astrology, and alchemy....
    , an occult magician (1486–1535)
  • Camillo Agrippa
    Camillo Agrippa

    Camillo Agrippa was a noted fencer, architect, engineer and mathematician of the Renaissance. He is considered to be one of the greatest fencing theorists of all time....
    , a sixteenth-century architect who applied geometric theory to the art of fencing.
  • Agrippa d'Aubigné
    Agrippa d'Aubigné

    Th?odore-Agrippa d'Aubign? was a France poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler. His epic poem Les Tragiques is widely regarded as his masterpiece....
     (1552–1630), French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler


Fictional characters

  • Agrippa, a superhero from "The Tick
    The Tick

    The Tick is a Character , an Surreal humor Parody of comic book superheroes. Created by cartoonist Ben Edlund, the character debuted as a newsletter mascot in 1986, was spun off into an independent comic-book series in 1988, and gained mainstream popularity through an The Tick on Fox Broadcasting in 1994 in television....
    " (Only appeared in animated series)
  • Mumboz Agrippa, a character from the Zork
    Zork

    Zork was one of the first interactive fiction computer games and an early descendant of Colossal Cave Adventure. The first version of Zork was written in 1977?1979 on a PDP-10 computer by Tim Anderson , Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels , and Dave Lebling, and implemented in the MDL programming language....
     series of computer games
  • Marcus Agrippa (character of Rome), a character based on the historical Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa in the television series Rome


Other

  • Agrippa (crater)
    Agrippa (crater)

    Agrippa is a moon impact crater that is located at the southeast edge of the Mare Vaporum. It is located to the north of the crater Godin , and the irregular Tempel lies just to the east....
    , named after Agrippa (astronomer)
    Agrippa (astronomer)

    Agrippa was a Greek people astronomy. The only thing that is known about him regards an astronomical observation that he made in 92 AD, which is cited by Ptolemy ....
  • Agrippa (a book of the dead)
    Agrippa (A Book of the Dead)

    Agrippa is a work of art created by speculative fiction novelist William Gibson, artist Dennis Ashbaugh and publisher Kevin Begos Jr. in 1992....
    , a 1992 work of art by William Gibson and others


See also

  • Agrippina
    Agrippina

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  • Agrippinus
    Agrippinus

    Agrippinus may refer to:*Paconius Agrippinus, a stoic philosopher of the first century*Agrippinus of Alexandria, bishop of Alexandria*Agrippinus of Carthage, bishop of Carthage during the third century...