Marcus Vipsanius Clutched

Man of war clutched

Present at the side of Octave as of the death of César in 44 av. J. - C., Agrippa allowed by its military victories (Bataille of Nauloque in 36 av. J. - C. against Sextus Pompée, Bataille of Actium in 31 av J. - C. against Marc Antoine) the assertion of the authority of Octave, the installation of the Principat and the end of the civil wars.

During the principat, participle with the new conquests of the empire Clutched, in Spain (20 and 19 av. J. - C.) and on the Danube in particular (13 and 12 av. J. - C.). It is also a diplomatic scientist during the wars.

Politician clutched

Clutched is with Mécène one of the very close advisers of Auguste.

With died of his/her son-in-law Marcus Claudius Marcellus in 23 av. J. - C., Auguste is seriously sick. It had only one girl, Julia, of its two marriages (with Scribonia then Livie). Worried by its succession, it decides to support Agrippa.

Clutched receives an exceptional imperium, the power tribunician and ensures the joint management with Auguste. In 21 av. J. - C. it marries Julia, from this union are born in particular: Caius César, Lucius César and Agrippine old the (future wife of Germanicus).

Builder clutched

Clutched made build on the Champ de Mars the first thermal baths in Rome, private property which it bequeathed to the Roman people: the Thermes of Clutched.

It carried out near these thermal baths the first version of a temple dedicated to all the divinities, the the Pantheon.

It also made build other temples, theaters, gantries and aqueducts, in particular the Aqua Virgo .

He also undertook the construction of the network of the Roman Voies as a Gaulle, on the order of Auguste.

He built the Maison Carrée at the first century before J-C.

See too

External bond

Shortened Roman History, Menenius Clutched

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