Agrippa (disambiguation)

Agrippa (disambiguation)

Agrippa may refer to:

People

Classical era

*Agrippa (Alba Longa), a semi-mythological king of Alba Longa
*Menenius Agrippa, a Roman consul in 503 BC.
*Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (63–12 BC) was 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 (17 BC–AD 2, also known as Lucius Julius Caesar).
**Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa Postumus (12 BC–AD 14).
*Gaius Fonteius Agrippa, a father and son with the same name; the former an accuser of Libo, the latter suffect consul in 58 AD
*Decimus Haterius Agrippa, consul in 22 AD
*Marcus Asinius Agrippa, consul in 25 AD
*Vibulenus Agrippa, committed suicide in the Roman senate in 36 AD
*Two kings of the Roman client kingdom Judea:
**Agrippa I, (10 BC–AD 44) grandson of Herod the Great
**Agrippa II, (AD 27–100), son of Agrippa I
*Agrippa (astronomer), a Greek astronomer from the late 1st century
*Agrippa the Sceptic, a Sceptic philosopher at the end of the 1st century
*Agrippa Castor, a Christian Roman writer of the 2nd century
*Marcius Agrippa, a slave of the 3rd century who was eventually elevated to senatorial rank by Macrinus

Modern era

*Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, an occult magician (1486–1535)
*Camillo Agrippa, a sixteenth-century architect who applied geometric theory to the art of fencing.
*Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552–1630), French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler

Fictional characters

*Agrippa, a superhero from "The Tick" (Only appeared in animated series)
*Mumboz Agrippa, a fictional character from the Zork series of computer games
*Marcus Agrippa (character of Rome), a character based on the historical Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa in the BBC-HBO-RAI television series "Rome."

Other

*Agrippa (crater), named after Agrippa (astronomer)
*Agrippa (a book of the dead), a 1992 work of art by William Gibson and others

ee also

*Agrippina
*Agrippinus


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