The Wars of the Jews

Agrippa (friend of Caesar)

Also known as: Agrippa · Role: Roman leader · First appears: Book I, Chapter 20

Agrippa was a Roman leader and friend of Caesar. In Book I, Chapter 20, he and Augustus were friends; Augustus “was beloved by Caesar next after Agrippa, and by Agrippa next after Caesar.”

In Book I, Chapter 21, Agrippa was a friend of Herod (son of Antipater and Cypros), who rebuilt the coastal city of Anthedon and renamed it Agrippeum: “He also rebuilt Anthedon, a city that lay on the coast, and had been demolished in the wars, and named it Agrippeum.”

Relationship record

Life events

  • Herod rebuilt Anthedon and renamed it Agrippeum.(Book I, Chapter 21 · 📍 Anthedon)

Book I, Chapter 20

  • friends with Augustus “he was beloved by Caesar next after Agrippa, and by Agrippa next after Caesar”
  • with Augustus (interaction) “he was beloved by Caesar next after Agrippa, and by Agrippa next after Caesar”

Book I, Chapter 21

  • friends with Herod (son of Antipater and Cypros) (Agrippa is explicitly called Herod's friend.) “Moreover, he had so very great a kindness for his friend Agrippa, that he had his name engraved upon that gate which he had himself erected in the temple.”

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