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accompanied Agrippa on his tour of the eastern provinces. Ephesus recorded their visit on an inscription in the city’s forum.

37. Agrippa died before the Ara Pacis Augustae was inaugurated. He is included in the procession of guests at the event but is the only one shown with his toga covering his head.

38. After Agrippa’s death there were reports that a comet had been seen in the sky. This denarius shows Augustus holding a star with the right hand above the semi-naked figure of Agrippa who holds a small Winged Victory in the palm of his right hand and a mace in his left.

39. Debate continues about whether Augustus or Tiberius or Caligula first minted this as showing a high relief portrait of Agrippa and semi-naked Neptunus holding a trident and dolphin.

40. Augustus adopted Agrippa’s son Caius hoping to raise him as his heir. Despite many advantages he proved a disappointment.

41. Adopted by Augustus at the same time as Tiberius, Postumus Agrippa even failed to live up to the low expectations of him.

42. Agrippa’s daughter Agrippina the Elder married Germanicus Caesar. They created a dynasty which included the emperors Caligula and Nero.

43. In a tribute to the builder of the Aqua Virgo , which still supplies water to the Trevi Fountain, Rome, the eighteenth-century architect designed two panels commemorating Agrippa.

44. The second of the Trevi panels commemorates the moment the young girl located the source of the Aqua Virgo for Agrippa.

45. Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s An Audience at Agrippa’s (1876) is one of the few paintings to depict the life of M. Agrippa.

Map 10. Agrippa’s Travels, 30–24 BCE.

Map 11. The Buildings of Agrippa in the Campus Martius.

Figure 4. Excavations in the nineteenth century established that older foundations exist below the present Pantheon, which are presumed to be of Agrippa’s original building.

Figure 5. Piranesi’s drawing of the Pantheon as it was in 1756 displays the inner structure of the pronaos . Hadrian may have reused materials from Agrippa’s original Pantheon in the extensive rebuilding after its destruction by fire.

Map 12. Agrippa’s Travels, 23–19 BCE.

Figure 6. Agrippa’s Orbis Terrarum may not have been a map in the conventional sense but a text document carved in stone. (Reconstructed by the author after Brodersen)

Map 13. Tres Galliae and Germania Magna, 19 BCE.

Map 14. Plan of Colonia Copia Felix Munatia Lugdunum .

Figure 7. Some historians believe Agrippa commissioned the Pont du Gard to supply fresh water to Colonia Nemausus . Recent archaeological evidence suggests it was actually constructed during the reign of Claudius. Its design may have been inspired by Agrippa’s Aqua Iulia in Rome.

Map 15. The Asturian/Cantabrian War Zone.

Figure 8. Several portrait busts survive which have been identified as Agrippa. The most recognisable is the head from Gabii, as featured in a nineteenth century German textbook.

Figure 9. Narcissus, a former slave freed by Agrippa, worked as a member of production staff ( rogator ad scaena ) at an unknown theatre in Rome.

Map 16. Agrippa’s Travels, 18–12 BCE.

Figure 10. Agrippa commissioned a new concert hall for music and literary performances in Athens. It was state-of-the-art design in the first century BCE.

Figure 11. When completed the Odeion of Agrippa dominated the Agora in central Athens both in height and footprint and could seat an audience of 1,000–1,200 spectators.

Map 17. Plan of Antiocheia.

Figure 12. Agrippa raised a monument intending his remains to be interred there. Fragments of it survived for Piranesi to drawn them in the eighteenth century.

Figure 13. Agrippa’s ashes were finally deposited in the Mausoleum of Augustus, alongside those of Marcellus, Octavia and Drusus the Elder. (Reconstruction by the author after G. Gatti and H. von Hesburg).

Map 18. Agrippa’s Orbis Terrarum reconstructed as a map.

Figure 14. The simple, understated inscription declaring Agrippa as