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Rome's patron : the lives and afterlives of Maecenas / Emily Gowers.

Author: Gowers, Emily, author.

ImprintPrinceton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2024]

Descriptionxv, 463 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Note:The parallel lives of Maecenas -- Maecenas the patron -- Maecenas the landlord: Virgil's Georgics -- Maecenas the lyric tyrant: Horace's Odes -- Maecenas the pacemaker: Propertius's Elegies -- Maecenas as a figure of style: the two Senecas -- Missing Maecenas: post-Augustan appearances -- Jewels and seals -- The gardens, the tower, the auditorium -- The afterlives of Maecenas.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-444) and index.



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Author:
Gowers, Emily, author.
Subject:
Maecenas, Gaius Cilnius, approximately 70 B.C.-8 B.C -- Influence.
Subject:
Latin literature -- History and criticism.
Benefactors -- Rome -- Biography.
Statesmen -- Rome -- Biography.
Rome -- History -- Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D.
Index Term - Genre/Form
Biographies.