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Gaius Maecenas
Gaius Maecenas (70 - 8 BC) was a confidant and political advisor to Augustus Caesar. Maecenas also sponsored young poets - he is reputed to have discovered Horace and he supported Virgil as well... as "Cilnius Maecenas"; it is possible that "Cilnius" was his mother's nomen ...
8 BC
Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC - 0s BC - 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 13 BC 12 BC 11 BC 10 BC 9 BC - 8 BC - 7 BC 6 BC 5 BC 4 BC 3 BC Births Deaths Horace, Roman poet Maecenas, Roman politician and patron of the arts Events ...
70 BC
Cornelius Dolabella, Roman general Maecenas, Roman politician and patron October 15 - Virgil, Roman ...
Arezzo
Buonarroti, one of the greatest painters and sculptors of all times, Maecenas, who protected artists such as ...
Capel Lofft
a note to his English Bards and Scotch Reviewers , ridiculed Lofft as "the Maecenas of shoemakers ...
Albinovanus Pedo
formerly attributed to Pedo by Scaliger; two on the death of Maecenas ( In Obitum Maecenatis and De ...
Terrace (gardening)
the hilly sites of Asia Minor, and the villa gardens of Maecenas, which included libraries open to ...
Tivoli, Italy
(Hadrian's Villa), but Maecenas and Augustus also had villas at Tibur, and the poet Horace had a modest ...
Marcus Cornelius Fronto
fortune, erected magnificent buildings and purchased the famous gardens of Maecenas. Antoninus Pius ...
10  Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus
his initiative. His influence on literature, which he encouraged after the manner of Maecenas, was ...
11  Apicius
literary patron and book collector Maecenas, the force of his diatribe in favor of the good old Roman ...
12  Château
open Roman villas of the time of Pliny, Maecenas or emperor Tiberius began to be walled in, then ...
13  Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
Maecenas advised Augustus to attach Agrippa still more closely to him by making him his son-in-law. He ...
14  Mad-Mam
, (1804-1886) Mae-Maf Maecenas, Gaius Cilnius Maeda Toshiie Maeterlinck, Maurice, (1862-1949), Nobel ...
15  Marguerite of Navarre
called "the Maecenas to the learned ones of her brother's kingdom". Louise of Savoy became a widow ...


 
 
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