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Maecenas

(Gaius Maecenas)
70–8 BC

Maecenas was a close friend of Augustus, and although he did not hold official public offices, he was very influential in government, both domestically, and diplomatically. His reputation was one of exceptional tact and moderation and he aided Augustus greatly in his dealings with rivals and political opponents. The fact that the reputation of Augustus was one of moderation and accommodation was largely due to the influence of Maecenas, who actively discouraged him from carrying out purges or mass executions of his political enemies.

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In spite of his significant contributions to the new political order in Rome, Maecenas is still best known for being a patron of the arts. He supported and promoted the careers of such Latin literary greats as Virgil, Horace, and Propertius. The Augustan era is known as the Golden Age of Latin literature, and it marks the first time that Latin rose to the same level as Greek in terms of original literary contributions. Maecenas can be thoug

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Gaius Cilnius Maecenas

Gaius Cilnius Maecenas: an ancient promoter

Caius Cilnius Maecenas, Latin Gaius Cilnius Maecenas, was born in Arezzo on the very distant April 13, 68 BC.

Maecenas, a writer, was an important Roman politician and an influential adviser to Emperor Augustus. His name has become so famous that it has become an adjective in the Italian language : he was in fact the promoter and financier of numerous artists.

A man who did not aim for power himself

Thanks to Gaius Maecenas the new generation of Augustan poets was able to emerge and today we know Oratius, Varius Rufus and Virgilius. The Roman politician was de facto minister of culture of Rome in the Augustan age, but despite his high economic position he chose never to sit on a seat in the Roman Senate. Despite having a status that would have provided for him, he decided to remain an equestrian – or knight for life.

Gaius Cilnius Maecenas: patron of the Arts

Maecenas did so much to support young poets that his name has become synonymous with “protector or financier of artists.”

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Gaius Maecenas

(year of birth unknown). Among Octavian's earliest supporters—he fought at Philippi—he was his intimate and trusted friend and agent. (See Augustus.) His high position rested entirely on this: he never held a magistracy or entered the senate, remaining an equestrian. He arranged Octavian's marriage with Scribonia, and represented him at the negotiations of the pact of Brundisium (40 bc) and that of Tarentum (37), when he took along his poets (Horace, Satires 1. 5). He went as envoy to Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony) in 38, and in 36–33 and 31–29 he was in control of Rome and Italy in Octavian's absence, an unprecedented position: ‘no title, only armed power’. In 30, claiming to uncover a conspiracy, he executed the son of the triumvir Aemilius Lepidus (2). His enormous wealth must derive partly from the confiscations. He bequeathed the emperor everything, including his magnificent house and grounds on the Esquiline. Many inscriptions survive of his slaves and freedmen. Maecenas was famous, or notorious, for his luxury: wines, gourmet dishes, gems, fabrics, and love a