Drusilla (daughter of Herod Agrippa)

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

As a child she was with Epiphanes, son of King Antiochus IV, engaged. Because Epiphanes not performed the promised circumcision, marriage did not materialize. In 53 it was with King Azizus from Emesa, who was circumcised and converted to Judaism, married. The Roman procurator Felix Marcus Antonius they brought in the year 55 AD to marry him and thus to violate the law prohibiting the marriage of a Jew with a Gentile. It is not recorded that the Jews had publicly protested against this connection. With Felix they had was a son of Agrippa. Because of this marriage and kinship relations Tacitus said of Felix, " that he on such a power should be supported with impunity allow everything ". Both mother and son came to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 killed.

Source

• P. Cornelius Tacitus. Annals. Latin - German. Edited by Erich Heller. With an introduction by Manfred Fuhrmann ( Tusculum Collection ). Dusseldorf and Zurich 3rd edition 1997.