Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa

Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa was Augustus’s closest general, administrator and son-in-law. His victories, especially at Actium, and his building projects in Rome made him indispensable to the creation of the Augustan order.

In Alistair Forrest’s Vipers of Rome, beginning at Philippi in 42 BC, veteran centurion Titus Villius Macer attracts the attention of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and is recruited into Octavian’s intelligence network. Colleen McCullough’s Antony and Cleopatra places Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa within a narrative shaped by court politics and dynastic power, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and political ambition and government. Other novels featuring Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa include Alistair Forrest’s Sea of Flames.

In non-fiction, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa is discussed in Lindsay Powell’s Marcus Agrippa, Lindsay Powell’s Augustus at War, and Lindsay Powell’s Cleopatra Queen of Egypt. In Lindsay Powell’s Marcus Agrippa, Marcus Agrippa reconstructs the life of Augustus’s closest friend, commander and political partner.