Maecenas, me-see'nas, [It. Mecknate, ma-cha-na'tl,
orMECENATO; Fr. Mecenk, ma'sjn',] (Caius Cii.nius,)
a celebrated patron of literature at Rome, was born probably
about 70 li.c. He was descended from an ancient
and royal Etruscan family, and belonged to the equestrian
order. (Horace, Carm. I. 1-20.) He was the friend
of Octavius before his accessi...
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Gaius Cilnius Maecenas (13 April 70 BC – ? October 8 BC) was
a confidant and political advisor to Octavian (who was to
become the first Emperor of Rome as Caesar Augustus) as well
as an important patron for the new generation of Augustan
poets. During the reign of Augustus, Maecenas served as a
quasi-culture minister to the Emperor.
His name h...
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A famous statesman, courtier, and patron of literature of
the Augustan Age at Rome. The date of his birth is
uncertain, but is to be placed between the years B.C. 73 and
63, on the 13th of April (Hor. Carm. iv. 11). His family was
of Etruscan origin-a great subject of boasting in a society
where Etruscomania was as great a fad as is Anglomania...
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