The True Story

Marcus Agrippa was a remarkable man in his own day and, 2,000 years later, his achievement is undiminished. As the foremost deputy of Emperor Augustus, for three decades he waged wars, befriended kings and potentates, pacified provinces, and beautified Rome. He personified the term "right-hand man."

Most people who recognize his name today likely know it through novels, films, and television. Yet these are all fictionalized or dramatized treatments intended to entertain, where liberties may be, and usually are, taken with the facts.