Maecenas

Family: Roman elite · Role: patron of the arts · First appears: Annals I (15)

Annals I (15)

• admired: Bathyllus “Augustus had countenanced these players and their art, in complaisance to Maecenas, who was mad in love with Bathyllus the comedian;”

Annals III (6)

• protégé: Sallustius Crispus “he was therefore, in the time of Maecenas, the next in favour, afterwards chief confidant in all the secret counsels of Augustus and Tiberius”

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Extracted from the original text of Tacitus — The Histories & The Annals (Books I-VI) & Agricola. Made with Rho MD.