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The numerous works of art found at the end of the 19th century testify to the collecting taste of Maecenas and the luxury lavished in the furnishings of this suburban residence, like other horti. Several marble fountains, mirroring the unparalleled gardens around them, blur the line between the tamed cultivation and human imitation of nature. [41]
Articles relating to Gaius Maecenas (c. 70 – 8 BC), quasi-culture minister to the Roman Emperor and patron of the Augustan poets, including Horace and Virgil. Pages in category "Gaius Maecenas" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Gaius Cilnius Maecenas ([ˈɡäːiʊs̠ ˈkɪɫ̪niʊs̠ mäe̯ˈkeːnäːs̠] 13 April 68 BC [1] – 8 BC) was a friend and political advisor to Octavian (who later reigned as emperor Augustus). He was also an important patron for the new generation of Augustan poets, including both Horace and Virgil .
Horace, in a letter to his friend Quintius, [2] describes in glowing terms the country villa which his patron, Maecenas, had given him: "It lies on a range of hills, broken by a shady valley which is so placed that the sun when rising strikes the right side, and when descending in his flying chariot, warms the left.
Map from Forma Urbis Romae (Lanciani) Section of the Aurelian Wall near the Muro Torto – originally the retaining wall north of the Horti Aciliorum The Horti Aciliorum was a luxurious villa-estate in the city of Rome, created in the 2nd century AD on the Pincian Hill, between the Porta Pinciana and what is now the Spanish Steps.
Gaius Maecenas Melissus (/ m ə ˈ l ɪ s ə s /; fl. 1st century AD) was one of the freedmen of Gaius Maecenas, the noted Roman Augustan patron of the arts. His primary importance for Latin literature is that he invented his own form of comedy known as the " fabula trabeata " (tales of the knights).
[3]: 7 The site chosen for the baths formerly belonged to a vast garden estate known as the horti Asiniani, developed by Gaius Asinius Pollio during the reign of Augustus. [4] The Farnese Bull sculptural group that was later moved into the Baths of Caracalla was already present at the site in the time of Pollio, who had imported it to display ...
The map is based on traditional accounts and earlier maps such as the one of the Beatus of Liébana codex, and is very similar to the Ebstorf Map, the Psalter world map, and the Sawley map (erroneously for considerable time called the Henry of Mainz map). It is not a literal map, and does not conform to geographical knowledge of the time.