Maecenas with Virgil, Horace and Varius
Virgil, Horace and Varius at the house of Maecenas. Gaius Cilnius Maecenas (70-8 BC) was an ally, friend and political advisor to Octavian as well as an important patron for the new generation of Augustan poets. His name has become a byword for a wealthy, generous and enlightened patron of the arts
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