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  Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa article - Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa 63 12 Roman Augustus Battle Actium Marcus Antonius ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (63 BC-12 BC) was a Roman statesman and general, son-in-law and minister of the emperor Augustus.
Agrippa's first care was to provide a safe harbour for his ships, which he accomplished by cutting through the strips of land which separated the Lacus Lucrinus from the sea, thus forming an outer harbour an inner one was also made by joining the lake Avernus to the Lucrinus (Dio Cassius xlviii.
Agrippa left several children; by Pomponia, a daughter Vipsania, who became the wife of the emperor Tiberius; by Julia Caesaris three sons, Gaius and Lucius Caesar and Agrippa Postumus, and two daughters, Agrippina the elder, afterwards the wife of Germanicus, and Julia, who married Lucius Aemilius Pauilus.
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 Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Agrippa was of humble birth, being born in the countryside outside of Rome.
Agrippa's first care was to provide a safe harbor for his ships, which he accomplished by cutting through the strips of land which separated the Lacus Lucrinus from the sea, thus forming an outer harbor and an inner one was also made by joining the lake Avernus to the Lucrinus.
Marcus Vispanius Agrippa, along with Gaius Maenases and Octavian, was a central person in the establishing of the principate system of emperors, which would govern the Roman Empire up until the Crisis of the Third Century and the birth of Dominate system.
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 Agrippa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Gaius Vispanius Agrippa (aka Gaius Julius Caesar Vipsanianus)
Lucius Vispanius Agrippa (aka Lucius Julius Caesar Vipsanianus)
Camillo Agrippa was a sixteenth-century architect who applied geometric theory to the art of fencing.
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 The Agrippan Principate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Agrippa was principally a military man, not a politician; in the latter sphere, he took Octavian as his model.
A series of rebellions in northeastern Spain occupied Agrippa’s personal attention from 11 BCE until the end of his life, but he was able to depute his “sons”, Tiberius and Drusus, to carry on warfare on the upper Danube (Pannonia) and beyond the Rhine (the North Sea coast of Germany), respectively.
Agrippa continued the Octavianic practice of appointing legati as provincial governors and legionary commanders where he was legally proconsul, but also instituted the dispatch of senators as spectores.
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 Agrippa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Menenius Agrippa, a Roman consul in 503 BC.
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (63–12 BC), Roman statesman and general, friend of Augustus Caesar.
Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552–1630), French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler.
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 Articles - Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Agrippa returned to Greece where he assumed command of the Macedonian legions (most notably the Legio IV Macedonica) and marched them to Rome.
In 19 BC, Agrippa was employed in putting down a rising of the Cantabrians in Hispania (Cantabrian Wars).
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, along with Gaius Maecenas and Octavian, was a central person in the establishing of the principate system of emperors, which would govern the Roman Empire up until the Crisis of the Third Century and the birth of Dominate system.
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 Encyclopedia: Lyon
Agrippa recognized that Lugdunum's position on the natural highway from north to south-eastern France made it a natural communications hub, and he made Lyon the starting-point of the principal Roman roads throughout Gaul.
The Christians in Lyon were persecuted for their religious views under the reigns of the Roman emperors Marcus Aurelius and Septimus Severus.
Marcus Aurelius depicted in The Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, as translated by George Long Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (April 26, 121 – March 17, 180) was Roman Emperor from 161 to his death in 180.
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 The Pantheon
The structure as shown at right viewed from the Piazza della Rotunda, in its full splendor, is as impressive a structure as I have ever visited.
Marcus Vispanius Agrippa, the son-in-law of Augustus, built a temple to all Roman deities on the site between 27 and 25 BC.
The porch contains an inscription, which accredits the construction of the Pantheon to Agrippa.
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 Encyclopedia entries starting with AGR
General characteristics Latitude 4.1° N Longitude 10.5° E Diameter 44 km Depth 3.1 km Colongitude 350° at sunrise Name Source Agrippa Agrippa is a lunar impact crater that is located at the southeast edge of the Mare Vaporum.
Agrippa I (c.10 BC - AD 44), king of Judea, the grandson of Herod the Great, and son of Aristobulus and Berenice.
She was the daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa by his third wife Julia Caesaris, was grand-daughter of Augus..
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 Agrippa, Romans (Photo Archive)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Agrippa took part in the wars against Sextus Pompeius and Marcus Antonius (Marc Antony) and played a decisive role in the victory at Actium.
Agrippa build and reconstructed several buildings and monuments in Rome, of which the most famous is the Pantheon.
Agrippa died in 12 BCE and was buried in the Mausoleum of Augustus along with the rest of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
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To hide the truth, the conspirators tap Agrippa's father Vispanius as the sole murderer of Caesar, leading Agrippa to become a gladiator to win the right to kill the true murderer, and, in the process of climbing the ranks of gladiators, being able to find out the full truth and save his father.
While Agrippa fights in vicious arena battles against both man and beast, Octavianus is left creeping around Rome, clinging against walls, crawling through bushes, and slapping unsuspecting guards around with vases.
Once a gauge is filled, Agrippa can lift his arms and cheer at the crowd, who will toss him food to help replenish his health or, if he has them riled up appropriately, a giant weapon.
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 Roman Emperors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
On being sent by Thermus to Bithynia, to fetch a fleet, he dawdled so long at the court of Nicomedes that he was suspected of improper relations with the king.
Son of the Great Marcus Aurelius, Commodus was on the Battlefield on the Danube when his father died and he became Emperor at the age of 18.
His body was buried that night, but after an attempt to dig him up and drag his corpse through the city he was eventually laid to rest in the Mausoleum of Hadrian and deified four years later.
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 Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus
Marcus Junius Silanus was a great, great-grandson of Augustus.
Aemilia's mother was Vipsania Julia Agrippina, daughter of Augustus' daughter Julia Caesaris from her second marriage to Marcus Vispanius Agrippa.
He was the namesake of his father and he came from a ancient family.
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 ROMANORVM - Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Agrippa was the loyal firend and general of Augustus.
He later married Augustus daughter Julia and became his hier-apparent.
Agrippa died, however, before his friend, in 12 BC.
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 Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa | TutorGig.co.uk Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
'Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa' (63 BC- 12 BC) was a Roman statesman and general.
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, along with Gaius Maenases and Octavian, was a central person in the establishing of the principate system of emperors, which would govern the Roman Empire up until the Crisis of the Third Century and the birth of Dominate system.
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 Agrippa - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, the Roman who was a friend of Augustus
Agrippa I, (10 BC - AD 44) grandson of Herod the Great,
Agrippa II, (AD 27 - 100), son of his namesake
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 Index to Horace Satires:Epistles ABC
was defeated by Octavians’ admiral, Agrippa and the outcome led to Cleopatra’s downfall.
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (64/63-12BC), son-in-law and friend of Octavian/Augustus, and aedile in 33BC when he used his wealth liberally in Octavian’s cause.
Marcus Junius Brutus was one of the leaders of the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar.
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 THE EMERGENCE OF THE AUGUSTAN AGE
Octavian aided by Salvidienus and Agrippa forced Antony’s forces out of Rome -- they fled to Perusia (Perugia) where they were forced to surrender.
Octavian and his friends (Agrippa, Maecenas, and Statilius Taurus) began to adorn the city with new buildings, as well as providing good water and cheap food.
Octavian’s fleet, commanded by Agrippa, captured Leucas, Patrae, and Corinth cutting Antony off from the Peloponnese and began to interfere with his supplies by sea.
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 Abanteus
Antony was defeated by Octavians’ admiral, Agrippa and the outcome led to Cleopatra’s downfall.
Augustus Caesar) at Mutina in Cisalpine Gaul, and Octavian’s naval commander, Vispanius Agrippa, at the naval battle of Actium in 31BC.
Sicily in the Second Punic War, and was the ancestor of Marcus Claudius Marcellus.
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 ROMA -O- MATIC - Monuments and historical places
It was built in 27 B.C. by Marcus Vispanius Agrippa, Augustus’ general during its third consulate as the Latin inscription states in the pediment, "M. Agrippa L. f.
III Fecit" (belonging the Hadrian reconstruction) of which the traces remained in the Field of Mars in the vicinity of the thermal bath you build from him.
Later it was struck by the lightning in 110 under Trajan and together with other edifices from Field of Mars (118-125) it was completely rebuilt again by Hadrian, then it was restored by Severe Settimius in 202 and subsequently by Caracalla, as the inscription in small letters under the Agrippa’s one says.
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 History of Legio X Fretensis
This has been interpreted to represent the involvement of Legio X in the war between Octavian against Sextus Pompeius, in 717 AUC (36 BC), in the Straits of Messina, off Navlochus, in Sicily.
But Octavian had Marcus Vispanius Agrippa, the inventor of the iron grapnel.
Ever since the death of Agrippa I, and the ensuing rule of the first Roman procurator, there had been many clashes of short duration between Romans and Jews.
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 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Marcus Agrippa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Marcus Agrippa; all previous versions may be viewed here.
They link directly to authoring tools for you to start writing a particular article.
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 Register Report
He pushed back the German tribes beyond the Rhine as far as the Elbe and was later transferred to an Eastern post where he died of a mysterious illness.
Germanicus Caesar married Agrippina Major (16), 56G Grandmother, F, daughter of Marcus Vispanius Agrippa, M (0063 BC-0012 BC) & Julia (13), F (0039 BC-0014).
She was wedded in a political marriage to Augustus' faithful friend and loyal general, Agrippa.
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 The Entertainment Depot - PC / Mac / Console Gaming : PlayStation 2 - Reviews - Shadow of Rome
I wish the bouts were more man vs. beast and free-for-alls, especially since they added a few team bouts and hostage rescues, which aren't that great.
There are also some moments when Agrippa can walk around the gladiator school and either take part in practice matches or talk with fellow fighters.
While they rarely give out any useful information, you may be able to get some crucial information, like the time one gentleman informed me that his balls were sweaty - I can only assume someone was giggling when they put that in there.
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 LCPC - Information Sources - Roads through the ages (3)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The usefulness of roads became obvious for central authorities which, when powerful enough, developed real road networks.
Crete for instance had a small road network at its disposal in the 2nd millennium BC and, in the ancient Rome, Marcus Vispanius Agrippa (63-12 BC) was appointed Chief Officer of the Roman ways in 20 BC.
In Roman Gaul, the oldest road was the Via Domitia in Gallia Narbonensis, dating back to 118 BC.
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 Absyrtus
Mark Antony, the Roman general and triumvir, who seized the inheritance at Julius Caesar’s death, despite his will, and who was defeated by Octavian at Mutina in Cisalpine Gaul, and Octavian’s naval commander, Vispanius Agrippa, at the naval battle of Actium in 31BC.
Marcus Junius Brutus co-leader of the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar, and a writer on philosophy and rhetoric.
The gardens it faced were those of Agrippa and the Horti Pompeiani.
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 What-Means.com:List of encyclopedia topics/Biographies A - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius (Agrippa von Nettesheim), Henricus Agrippa)
'''Marcus Vispanius Agrippa''' ([[063b?]] - [[012b]]), [[Roman]] [[political figure]]
'''Marcus Allen''' (born [[1960]]), [[United States of AmericaU.S.]] football player; Super Bowl MVP 1984
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 [1998: August] Re: cacozelia
I recognize the word as one used by Marcus Vispanius in connection with Vergil, deeming him an "inventor of a new kind of affected language and calling him a suppositious child of Maecenas:" M. Vispanius a Maecenate eum suppositum apellabat novae cacozeliae repertore,..
We learn in the *Vitae Vergilianae* that V. allegedly spoke a common, ordinary language (i.e.
without rhetoricalal flourishes) and Agrippa sees evidence of this in his poetry and faults him for his eager pursuit of the ugly (kakos+ zelia).
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