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Agrippa was born c. 63 BC, [1] [4] in an uncertain location. [2] His father was called Lucius Vipsanius. [5] His mother's name is not known and Pliny the Elder claimed that his cognomen "Agrippa" derived from him having been born breech [6] so it is possible that she died in childbirth. [7]
The Pantheon (UK: / ˈ p æ n θ i ə n /, US: /-ɒ n /; [1] Latin: Pantheum, [nb 1] from Ancient Greek Πάνθειον (Pantheion) '[temple] of all the gods') is a former Roman temple and, since AD 609, a Catholic church (Italian: Basilica Santa Maria ad Martyres or Basilica of St. Mary and the Martyrs) in Rome, Italy.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (/ ə ˈ ɡ r ɪ p ə /; German:; 14 September 1486 – 18 February 1535) was a German Renaissance polymath, physician, legal scholar, soldier, knight, theologian, and occult writer.
Lucius Vipsanius was the father of the Roman politician and general Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, and thus an ancestor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.Very little is known of him but modern historians have speculated that Lucius may have been a first-generation Roman citizen of Plebeian status and relatively wealthy.
The Battle of Actium was a naval battle fought between Octavian's maritime fleet, led by Marcus Agrippa, and the combined fleets of both Mark Antony and Cleopatra.The battle took place on 2 September 31 BC in the Ionian Sea, near the former Roman colony of Actium, Greece, and was the climax of over a decade of rivalry between Octavian and Antony.
Agrippa (Greek: Ἀγρίππας) was a Pyrrhonist philosopher who probably lived towards the end of the 1st century CE. [1] He is regarded as the author of "The Five Tropes (or Modes, in Greek: τρόποι) of Agrippa", which are purported to establish the necessity of suspending judgment ().
Marcus Agrippa Postumus (12 BC – AD 14), [note 1] later named Agrippa Julius Caesar, [1] was a grandson of Roman Emperor Augustus.He was the youngest child of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder.
Marcus Asinius Agrippa was a Roman senator, who was active during the Principate.He was consul in AD 25 as the colleague of first Cossus Cornelius Lentulus, then of Gaius Petronius. [1]