Drusilla (daughter of Herod Agrippa)

Drusilla medallion from Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum (1553).
William Hogarth, Paul before Felix, 1752. Drusilla is seated on Felix's right.

Julia Drusilla (Greek: Δρούσιλλα; born AD 38) was a daughter of Herod Agrippa, King of Judaea and Cypros and the sister of Berenice, Mariamne and Herod Agrippa II.[1] Her son, Agrippa, was one of the few people known by name to have died in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.[2]

  1. ^ Jacobson, David (2 July 2019). Agrippa II: The Last of the Herods. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429-82357-2.
  2. ^ Curran, John (23 September 2014). "Philorhomaioi: The Herods between Rome and Jerusalem". Journal for the Study of Judaism. 45 (4–5): 493–522. doi:10.1163/15700631-12340097. ISSN 1570-0631.

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