Agrippa

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Agrippa may refer to:

People

Antiquity

  • Agrippa (mythology), semi-mythological king of Alba Longa
  • Agrippa (astronomer), Greek astronomer from the late 1st century
  • Agrippa the Skeptic, Skeptic philosopher at the end of the 1st century
  • Agrippa Menenius Lanatus, Roman consul in 503 BC
  • Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (63–12 BC), Roman statesman and general, friend and lieutenant of Augustus Caesar
  • Agrippa Postumus (12 BC–AD 14)
  • Gaius Fonteius Agrippa, father and son with the same name; the former an accuser of Libo, the latter suffect consul in AD 58
  • Decimus Haterius Agrippa, consul in AD 22
  • Marcus Asinius Agrippa, consul in AD 25
  • Vibulenus Agrippa, committed suicide in the Roman senate in AD 36
  • Herod Agrippa, (10 BC–AD 44) grandson of Herod the Great, king of Judea, friend of Claudius
  • Herod Agrippa II, (AD 27–100), his son
  • Agrippa Castor, Christian Roman writer of the 2nd century
  • Julius Agrippa, Centurion of the 2nd century
  • Marcius Agrippa, slave of the 3rd century who was eventually elevated to senatorial rank by Macrinus

Modern era

  • Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486–1535), occultist, philosopher, and theologian
  • Camillo Agrippa, sixteenth-century architect who applied geometric theory to the art of fencing
  • Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552–1630), French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler
  • Agrippa Masiyakurima, Zimbabwean Engineer, and Entrepreneur.

Fictional characters

  • Mumboz Agrippa, a character from the Zork series of computer games
  • Salome Agrippa, a character from True Blood
  • Mighty Agrippa, Roman God of the Aqueduct, a character from The Tick
  • Agrippa, a character from the video game Amnesia: The Dark Descent, likely based on Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
  • Agrippa, a character from the 1845 children's book Struwwelpeter

Other uses

  • Agrippa (praenomen), a Latin personal name
  • Agrippa (crater), an impact crater on the Moon
  • Agrippa (A Book of the Dead), a 1992 work of art by William Gibson and others
  • A fictional space destroyer in the Earth Alliance Civil War in the Babylon 5 television series
  • Pedestal of Agrippa in Athens

See also

  • Agrippina (disambiguation)
  • Agrippinus (disambiguation)
  • King Agrippa (disambiguation)
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