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.