Marcus Agrippa

Author : Lindsay Powell
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473853812

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Marcus Agrippa by Lindsay Powell Pdf

The authoritative biography of the ancient Roman general and loyal deputy to Emperor Augustus by the acclaimed historian and author of Augustus at War. When Gaius Octavius became the first emperor of Rome, Marcus Agrippa was by his side. As the emperor’s loyal deputy, he waged wars, pacified provinces, beautified Rome, and played a crucial role in establishing the Pax Romana—but he always served knowing that he would never rule in his own name. Why he did so, and never grasped power for himself, has perplexed historians for centuries. In this authoritative biography, historian Lindsay Powell offers a penetrating new assessment of Agrippa’s life and achievements. Following Caesar’s assassination, Agrippa was instrumental in asserting the rights of his friend Gaius Octavius as the dictator’s heir, seeing him crowned Emperor Augustus. Agrippa then established a reputation as a bold admiral, defeating Marcus Antonius and Queen Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, and ending bloody rebellions in the Cimmerian Bosporus, Gaul, Hispania, and Illyricum. Agrippa was also an influential statesman and architect. He established the vital road network that turned Julius Caesar’s conquests into viable provinces, overhauled Rome’s drains and aqueducts, and built the original Pantheon. Marrying Augustus’s daughter, Julia the Elder, Agrippa became co-ruler of the Roman Empire until his death in 12 BC. His bloodline lived on in the imperial family, through Agrippina the Elder, his grandson Caligula, and great-grandson Nero.

Author : Meyer Reinhold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:910211955

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Marcus Agrippa : a biography by Meyer Reinhold Pdf

Author : Meyer REINHOLD,Marcus Vipsanius AGRIPPA
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:504815298

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Marcus Agrippa. A Biography, Etc. [A Thesis. With a Portrait of Marcus Agrippa.]. by Meyer REINHOLD,Marcus Vipsanius AGRIPPA Pdf

Author : Jean-Michel Roddaz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Generals
ISBN : UOM:39015010203811

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Marcus Agrippa by Jean-Michel Roddaz Pdf

Author : Meyer Reinhold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:221001435

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Marcus Agrippa, a Biography by Meyer Reinhold Pdf

Author : in60Learning
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1095411098

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Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa by in60Learning Pdf

Smarter in sixty minutes.Get smarter in just 60 minutes with in60Learning. Concise and elegantly written non-fiction books and audiobooks help you learn the core subject matter in 20% of the time that it takes to read a typical book. Life is short, so explore a multitude of fascinating historical, biographical, scientific, political, and financial topics in only an hour each.Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa was one of the greatest Romans who ever lived. A man of constant honor, he worked side by side with Augustus and was responsible for the marble masterpieces of architecture ancient Rome is known for today. He was a consul, general, architect, and statesman, and lived his life according to a strict code of conduct. If not for his early death, the people of Rome were expecting him to be their next emperor. Explore his life, regal legacy, and the incredible impact one person can have on the course of a nation's history.

Author : Frederick Adam Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89090345281

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Marcus Agrippa by Frederick Adam Wright Pdf

Author : Ronny Müller
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9783656336037

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Agrippa und Augustus by Ronny Müller Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject World History - Early and Ancient History, grade: 2,7, University of Erfurt, language: English, abstract: The center of attention is, with regards to this seminar paper, the relation between Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Augustus. The paper is especially focused on their long and intimate fellowship. To illustrate the statement that neither one of them would have won fame, in exactly the same way as it took place, is the main objective of this work because it clarifies their close connectedness and dependency. This seminar paper starts with a consideration of historical researches on Agrippa by selected historians. Agrippa appeared most often on the side of Augustus and so it is a matter of common knowledge that litera-ture about Augustus had a huge number whereas literature in respect of Agrippa was very contemplatively. Afterwards a reflection with specific aspects is joining the work for clarifying the connectedness between Agrippa and Augustus. The following key aspects like Agrippa and his self-understanding, gathering and contrariness among the two of them, Agrippa and his request as well as his road of life alongside Augustus and his funeral are entering the limelight.

Author : Frederick W. Shipley
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606082447

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Agrippa's Building Activities in Rome by Frederick W. Shipley Pdf

Author : Richard Westall,Hannah Cornwell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350272484

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New Perspectives on the Roman Civil Wars of 49–30 BCE by Richard Westall,Hannah Cornwell Pdf

Offering new and original approaches to the Roman civil wars of 49-30 BCE, the eleven papers presented here for the first time shed light on this crucial moment in the forging of Roman identity. They engage with a variety of problems and topics in political discourse (diplomacy, the concept of libertas, divine paternity); socio-economic structures (allied rulers, military officials, civil war finances, Agrippa's family); material culture (the coinage of Julius Caesar, the physical remains of Corfinium); and literary commemoration (Sallust on trauma, the lost Histories of Asinius Pollio). The case studies presented here contribute to our understanding of a period that is just as fundamental for our view of the Romans as it was to the Romans themselves. Arguing for the unity of the period in question, the volume deploys a multiplicity of methodologies to analyse how the trauma of armed conflict and the breakdown of accepted socio-cultural models not only mediated the contemporary experience of Roman civil war, but also left a lasting impression upon how Romans viewed the world. Incisive and critical, these contributions by a diverse team of international researchers, both emerging scholars and leaders in their fields, offer a new window into the world of the late Republic and early Principate.

Author : Aryeh Kasher
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110200874

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King Herod: A Persecuted Persecutor by Aryeh Kasher Pdf

The enigma of King Herod as a cruel bloodthirsty tyrant on the one hand, and a great builder on the other is discussed in a systematic modern historical and psychological study. It seeks to unravel the contradictory historic mystery of the man and his deeds. After A. Schalit's König Herodes, this study is a new comprehensive, pioneering study on the intriguing personality of Herod, also using the insights of psychology. Herod's mental state reached an acute level, consistent with the DSM-IV diagnosis for "Paranoid Personality Disorder". He grew up with an ambiguous identity and suffered from feelings of inferiority. Haunted by persecutory delusions, he executed almost any suspect of treason, including his wife and three sons. The Hebrew original text was Winner of the Ya'acov Bahat Prize for Non-Fiction Hebrew Literature for 2006.

Author : Stephan Huller
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781780283425

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The Real Messiah by Stephan Huller Pdf

Highly controversial but impeccably researched, The Real Messiah explodes the myth that Jesus was the long-prophesied Messiah of the Jewish nation. Indeed, it argues that Jesus never claimed that role but thought of himself as herald to the true Messiah: Marcus Julius Agrippa, the last King of the Jews and Jesus’ contemporary. It was he who truly founded what became known as Christianity, and wanted to build a faith to which anyone could aspire. Though Marcus Agrippa was initially successful, with the passing of time those in charge of the new faith capitulated to the whims of successive Roman Emperors and centered their religion on Jesus instead.

Author : Michael Peachin
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 3515086366

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Frontinus and the Curae of the Curator Aquarum by Michael Peachin Pdf

The De aquis of Sextus Julius Frontinus is usually interpreted as either an administrative guide for the curator aquarum, or as a work of praise. It can be demonstrated, however, that Frontinus had another goal in writing. The book is more likely what we would call a political pamphlet, explaining a particular administrative reform, and encouraging those affected by that reform to cooperate with it. Frontinus wants to be sure that all concessions of aqueduct water to private individuals be made as proper grants by the emperor. In short, this curator aquarum is interested in regulating the flow of a particular beneficium, namely, aqueduct water, from the emperor to his elite subjects.

Author : Jasper Burns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134131846

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Great Women of Imperial Rome by Jasper Burns Pdf

Drawing from a broad range of documentation this book vividly characterizes eleven royal women who are brought visually to life through photographs of over 300 ancient coins and through the author's own illustrations. Spanning the period from the death of Julius Caesar in 44BC to the third century AD, and with an epilogue surveying empresses of later eras, the author's compelling biographies reveal their remarkable contributions towards the legacy of Imperial Rome. Examining the wives, daughters, sisters and mothers of emperors, the study includes: a pregnant Roman princess who saves a Roman army through an act of personal heroism three third-century empresses who rule the most powerful state on Earth, presiding over unprecedented social and political reform an empress, though revered by her husband, is immortalized in history for infidelity and corruption by students of her greatest enemy. Jasper Burns paints portraits of these exceptional women that are colourful, sympathetic, and above all profoundly human. This book will be highly valuable to numismatists, students and scholars of Roman history or women’s studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191518355

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The Elder Pliny on the Human Animal by Anonim Pdf

As a detailed study of the human animal, described by its author as the raison d'etre of nature, Book Seven of the elder Pliny's Natural History is crucial to the understanding of the work as a whole. In addition, however, it provides a valuable insight into the extraordinary complex of ideas and beliefs current in Pliny's era, many of which have resonances for other eras and cultures. The present study includes a substantial introduction examining the background to Pliny's life, thought, and writing, together with a modern English translation, and a detailed commentary which emphasizes the importance of Book Seven as possibly the most fascinating cultural record surviving from early imperial Rome.