Marcus Antonius Felix (Felix in Greek: ο Φηλιξ, born between 5/10-?) was the ancient Rome procurator of Iudaea Province 52-60, in succession to Ventidius Cumanus. The squabbling created by the Roman practice of generating the equality of the Jews by insuring civic privileges bedeviled his time of service. Events Rome acknowledges Cunobelinus, King of the Catuvellauni, as King of Britain. ... Events Differentiation of localized Teutonic tribes of the Irminones. ... This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. ... A procurator is the incumbent of any of several current and historical political or legal offices. ... Iudaea Province in the 1st century Iudaea was a Roman province that extended over Judaea (Palestine). ... A Roman law prohibits the execution of old and crippled slaves. ... Events Boudicca sacks London (approximate date). ... A privilege—etymologically private law or law relating to a specific individual—is an honour, or permissive activity granted by another person or a government. ...

Felix was the younger brother of the Greek freedman Marcus Antonius Pallas (freedman). Felix was a Greek freedman either of the Emperor Claudius, according to which theory Josephus (Antiq. xx. 7) calls him Claudius Felix, or his mother Antonia Minor, a daughter of Triumvir Mark Antony to Octavia Minor and niece of Emperor Augustus. According to Tacitus, Pallas and Felix descended from the Greek Kings of Arcadia. Marcus Antonius Pallas (c. ... A Freedman or freedwoman (gender-neutral: freedperson) is a former slave who has been manumitted or emancipated. ... For other uses, see Claudius (disambiguation). ... A representation of Flavius Josephus, a woodcutting in John C. Winstons translation of his works Josephus ( 37 – 100 AD/CE), who became known, in his capacity as a Roman citizen, as Flavius Josephus[1], was a 1st-century Jewish historian and apologist of priestly and royal ancestry who survived... Julia Antonia Cretica Minor (the younger) (31 January 36 BC - September/October 37 AD) or Antonia the Younger or simply known as Antonia. ... Bust of Mark Antony Marcus Antonius (Latin: M·ANTONIVS·M·F·M·N[1]) ( 83 BC–August 1, 30 BC), known in English as Mark Antony, was a Roman politician and general. ... For other Roman noble women of this name see Octavia (69 - 11 BC.) Octavia Thurina Minor was one of the most prominent women in Roman history, respected and admired by contemporaries for her loyalty, nobility and humanity and for maintaining traditional Roman feminine virtues. ... Augustus (Latin: IMP•CAESAR•DIVI•F•AVGVSTVS;[1] September 23, 63 BC–August 19, AD 14), known as Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (English Octavian; Latin: C•IVLIVS•C•F•CAESAR•OCTAVIANVS) for the period of his life prior to 27 BC, was the first and among the most important of... Gaius Cornelius Tacitus Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (c. ... Arcadia or Arkadía (Greek Αρκαδία; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a region of Greece in the Peloponnesus. ...

Felix’s cruelty and licentiousness, coupled with his accessibility to bribes, led to a great increase of crime in Judaea. To put down the Zealots he favored an even more violent sect, the Sicarii ("Dagger-men"), by whose aid he contrived the murder of the high-priest Jonathan. The period of his rule was marked by internal feuds and disturbances, which he put down with severity. Zealotry denotes zeal in excess, referring to cases where activism and ambition in relation to an ideology have become excessive to the point of being harmful to others, oneself, and ones own cause. ... Sicarii (Latin plural of Sicarius dagger- or later contract- killer) is a term applied, in the decades immediately preceding the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, to the Jewish Zealots, (or insurgents) who attempted to expel the Romans and their partisans from Judea: —Josephus, Jewish Antiquities (xx. ... Jonathan (Hebrew: יְהוֹנָתָן / יוֹנָתָן, Standard Yonatan / YÉ™honatan Tiberian  / ; Whom God gave) was a prince of the Kingdom of Israel, son of King Saul, and beloved of the subsequent King David (see David and Jonathan). ...

The apostle Paul of Tarsus, after being apprehended in Jerusalem, was sent to be judged before Felix at Caesarea, and kept in custody for two years (Acts xxiv.). On returning to Rome, Felix was accused of having taken advantage of a dispute between the Jews and Syrians of Caesarea to slay and plunder the inhabitants, but through the intercession of his brother, the freedman Pallas who had great influence with the Emperor Nero, he escaped unpunished. Porcius Festus succeeded him as procurator of Judea. Paul of Tarsus (b. ... Panoramic view from Mt. ... Caesarea Palaestina Caesarea Palaestina, also called Caesarea Maritima, a town built by Herod the Great about 25 –13 BC, lies on the sea-coast of Israel about halfway between Tel Aviv and Haifa, on the site of a place previously called Pyrgos Stratonos (Strato or Stratons Tower, in Latin... Nero[1] Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (December 15, 37 – June 9, 68), born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, also called Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus, was the fifth and last Roman Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (54–68). ... Porcius Festus was procurator of Judea from about 58 to 62 AD, succeeding Antonius Felix. ...

Felix married three times. His first wife was princess Drusilla of Mauretania, a maternal second cousin of Emperor Claudius. Drusilla was an only child to Claudius’ late maternal cousin King Ptolemy of Mauretania and his wife Queen of Mauretania Julia Urania. Claudius arranged for Felix and Drusilla to marry around 53 in Rome. Like Felix, Drusilla was partly of Greek descent. Felix and Drusilla had no children. Felix between 54-56, divorced Drusilla and to marry a Jewish Princess. There were two princesses of Mauretania with the name Drusilla (Greek: η Δρουσìλλη) and were known as Drusilla of Mauretania. ... For other uses, see Claudius (disambiguation). ... Bust of Ptolemy of Mauretania, c. ... Julia Urania was a Syrian woman who lived in the first century and married King Ptolemy of Mauretania, the grandson of Egyptian Queen Cleopatra VII; Roman Triumvir Mark Antony and King Juba I of Numidia. ... For other uses, see number 53. ... Events October 13 - Roman Empire emperor Claudius dies after being poisoned by Agrippina, his wife and niece. ... // Events By place Roman Empire War between Rome and Parthia broke out due to the invasion of Armenia by Vologases, who replaced the Roman supported ruler with his brother Tiridates of Parthia Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus becomes a consul in Rome. ...

Felix’s second wife was a Jewish princess Drusilla, daughter of King of Judea Herod Agrippa I, from his wife and cousin Cypros. Felix with the Jewish Drusilla, had a son called Marcus Antonius Agrippa (he died along with his wife in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79) and a daughter Antonia Clementiana. Antonia Agrippina could be a daughter from their son‘s marriage (this name was graffiti in a Royal Tomb in Egypt). Clementiana became a grandmother to a Lucius Anneius Domitius Proculus. Two possible descendants from this marriage are Marcus Antonius Fronto Salvianus (a quaestor) and his son Marcus Antonius Felix Magnus a high priest in 225. Felix married for a third time, it is not known whether Felix divorced the Jewish Drusilla or she died. Nothing is known on his third wife. Map of the southern Levant, c. ... Front and back of a Judean coin from the reign of Agrippa I. Agrippa I also called the Great (10 BCE - 44 CE), King of the Jews, the grandson of Herod the Great, and son of Aristobulus IV and Berenice. ... This article is about the mountain in Italy. ... AD79 Events June 23 - Titus succeeds his father Vespasian as Roman emperor. ... Quaestores were elected officials of the Roman Republic who supervised the treasury and financial affairs of the state, its armies and its officers. ... Events Zhuge Liang pacifies Nan Zhong Births January 20 - Gordian III, Roman emperor Deaths Categories: 225 ...

See also

Roman Prefects and Procurators of Iudaea Province, 6-132 AD This page lists rulers of Judea and other related Jewish Kingdoms from the Maccabean Rebellion to the final Roman annexations. ...

References

• Tacitus, Annals, xx. 54, Histories v. 9
• Suetonius, Claudius, 28
• Emil Schürer, History of the Jewish People (1890-1891)
• article in Hastings' Diet, of the Bible (A. Robertson)
• commentaries on the Acts of the Apostles
• Sir W. M. Ramsay, St Paul the Traveller
• Carl von Weizsacker, Apostolic Age (Eng. trans., 1894)
• Jewish Encyclopedia: FELIX (ANTONIUS FELIX)
• http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Egypt/ptolemies/ptolemies_selene_ii.htm

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