Drusilla (daughter of Agrippa)

Drusilla (* 38 AD; † 79 AD) was a daughter of the Jewish king Herod Agrippa I and a sister of Herod Agrippa II.

As a child she was betrothed to Epiphanes , the son of King Antiochus IV of Kommagene . Because Epiphanes did not perform the promised circumcision, the marriage did not take place. In 53 she was married to Prince Azizus von Emesa , who had himself circumcised and converted to Judaism. The Roman procurator Marcus Antonius Felix persuaded her to marry him in 55, thereby breaking the law that forbade a Jew to marry a non-Jew. It is not recorded that the Jews publicly protested against this connection. With Felix she had a son named Agrippa. Because of these marital and family relationships, Tacitus said of Felix "that he could allow himself anything with impunity based on such power". Both mother and son were killed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79.

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P. Cornelius Tacitus : Annals . Latin-German. Edited by Erich Heller. With an introduction by Manfred Fuhrmann . 6th edition. Artemis & Winkler, Mannheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-538-03542-3 .

literature

Klaus Bringmann : Drusilla. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 3, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01473-8 , Sp. 824.
Klaus Bringmann: History of the Jews in Antiquity. From the Babylonian exile to the Arab conquest. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-608-94138-X , p. 242.
Ute Schall : The Jews in the Roman Empire. Pustet, Regensburg 2002, ISBN 3-7917-1786-3 , p. 198 f.
Julia Wilker: For Rome and Jerusalem. The Herodian dynasty in the 1st century AD. Verlag Antike, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-938032-12-1 , pp. 31, 33, 49-53 and others (see register).

Remarks

↑ Tacitus, Annalen 12,54,1: cuncta malefacta sibi impune ratus tanta potentia subnixo . However, Tacitus does not speak of the marriage to Drusilla. The most important manuscript also uses patientia instead of potentia . If one accepts this reading, the translation is "based on such leniency" (namely, of the emperor).

personal data
SURNAME	Drusilla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Daughter of the Jewish king Herod Agrippa I and sister of Herod Agrippa II.
DATE OF BIRTH	38
DATE OF DEATH	79

[1] Tacitus, Annalen 12,54,1: cuncta malefacta sibi impune ratus tanta potentia subnixo . However, Tacitus does not speak of the marriage to Drusilla. The most important manuscript also uses patientia instead of potentia . If one accepts this reading, the translation is "based on such leniency" (namely, of the emperor).