Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa

He was a great engineer.

Uh, he was also the, um, main planner of the Pantheon building in Rome, and his name is still on the facade to be seen by tourists of the Pantheon, M. Agrippa fecit, M-Marcus Agrippa made it.

Romans of the day usually omitted his middle name, Vipsanius, so he-- they knew him as we know him, Marcus Agrippa.

This is a novel about Agrippa's life, which is a challenging thing to do because Agrippa left behind very little record of anything he wrote or said, quite unlike his contemporaries, Julius Caesar, uh, Marcus Cicero.

I had the opportunity to, to ask Robert Harris about this book at an event in Washington a little while ago.

A crazy quilt of letters and little fragments.

Letters from people who you would expect, like his family members and his close friends like Agrippa, but also from poets and playwrights of the time.

Virgil is in there and Strabo and Horace and all these other people.

And it's amazing just how...

No state, ancient or modern, had before that time made a complete separation between the naval and military service.

In the great civilized nations of antiquity, Simon and Lysander, Pompey and Agrippa, had fought battles by sea as well as by land.

nor had the impulse which nautical science received at the close of the fifteenth century produced any division of labour at flodden the right wing of the victorious army was led by the admiral of england at jarnac and monconteur the huguenot ranks were marshalled by the admiral of france Neither John of Austria, the conqueror of Lepanto, nor Lord Howard of Effingham, to whose direction the marine of England was confided when the Spanish invaders were approaching our shores, had received the education of a sailor.

Raleigh, highly celebrated as a naval commander, had served during many years as a soldier in France, the Netherlands and Ireland.

Josephus claims over 2 million at Passover.

There's a census in the Tosefta attributed to Agrippa that implies 12 million.

Twelve million.

In a city of 50,000.

It is cute.

Zuckerberg customized his own personal agent into a classic Roman figure draped in a toga, which he named Agrippa after the Roman general.

There is a clip in the interview where he speaks to Agrippa and the voice synthesis is uncanny.

It's not rigid at all.

It isn't stiff or formal.

Yeah.

When you interact with Muse, you are actually dealing with two distinct entities.

You have the Muse agent, the worker, that is Agrippa or Thingy.

Those two do manage themselves pretty close to the Moneyball era.

at johnny ongueran4288 hopefully we sign we can sign agrippa next year agrippa who's agrippa We're going to find Agrippa because this guy really wants to sign this dude.

Are you talking about Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, the statesman and former Roman consul? Well, I have bad news for you because he died in 12 BC in Campania, Italy.

I don't know if he was even a really good baseball player, but I hope we get him.

Seems like a good guy.