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	Gaius Cilnius Maecenas - Wikipedia
		Gaius Cilnius Maecenas is de naam van een beroemde Romeinse staatsman en kunstbeschermer.
		Maecenas was ook zelf literair actief, maar er bleef weinig van zijn werk bewaard: kenners beweren dat het bol staat van neologismen, rare woorden en gezochte wendingen.
		Maecenas' vriend Horatius overleed nauwelijks een paar maanden later: ze werden naast elkaar begraven op de Esquilinus.
	nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gaius_Cilnius_Maecenas (586 words)

	GAIUS MAECENAS - LoveToKnow Article on GAIUS MAECENAS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Suetonius (Augustus, 66) attributes the loss of the imperial favor to Maecenas having indiscreetly revealed to Terentia, his wife, the discovery of the conspiracy in which her brother Murena was implicated.
		Maecenas endeavoured also to divert the less masculine genius of Propertius from harping continually on his love to themes of public interest.
		The great charm of Maecenas in his relation to the men of genius who formed his circle was his simplicity, cordiality and sincerity.
	83.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MAECENAS_GAIUS.htm (1052 words)

	Gaius Maecenas - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Gaius or Cilnius Maecenas (70 - 8 BC) was a confidant and political advisor to Augustus Caesar.
		Maecenas also sponsored young poets - he is reputed to have discovered Horace and he supported Virgil as well.
		11) refers to him as "Cilnius Maecenas"; it is possible that "Cilnius" was his mother's nomen.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Maecenas (71 words)

	Maecenas, Gaius (Cilnius) (Annotation to Carlyle, "Hudson's Statue") (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born in 70 BC, Maecenas was a Roman diplomat and counsellor to the Roman emperor Augustus.
		Maecenas held no office or military command but administered Rome and Italy for Octavian when he was fighting, and he swiftly and secretly scotched a plot to kill Octavian.
		Maecenas always competed however subtly with Agrippa for influence and after he was forced to tell his wife that the plot had been discovered to give her brother a chance to escape, his influence with Agustus waned.
	www.thecore.nus.edu.sg /landow/victorian/authors/carlyle/hudson/maecenas.html (408 words)

	Gaius Maecenas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gaius or Cilnius Maecenas (70 - 8 BC) was a confidant and political advisor to Augustus Caesar, as well as an important sponsor of young poets.
		Maecenas is probably most famous for his support of young poets, hence his name has become a synonym to "patron of arts" in many languages.
		He is reputed to have discovered Horace and he supported Virgil as well, who wrote the Georgics in his honor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maecenas (232 words)

	Maecenas - Wikipedia
		Villa von Maecenas in Tivoli, Italien, Jacob Philipp Hackert, 1783
		Der wohlhabende und das Wohlleben schätzende Maecenas versuchte sich auch in der Dichtkunst, erntete dafür und für seine Lebensweise aber böse Kritik von Lucius Annaeus Seneca (z.B. de providentia 3, 9seq).
		Maecenas' Dichterkreise haben aber auch nicht unerheblich zur Propaganda der Idee des Prinzipats beigetragen.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maecenas (232 words)

	ClSt 200 - Remythologizing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is difficult to underestimate the influence of this circle in generating notions of Roman-ness for the Augustan Age and beyond.
		Maecenas' circle, and Vergil in particular, did the major cultural repair work of their generation.
		Himself a writer, Maecenas wrote both prose and poetry, although his works were much criticized, and only a few fragments of them survive.
	www.classics.upenn.edu /myth/remyth/maecenas.php (412 words)

	Maecenas (Caius Maecenas) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		According to some sources, it was Maecenas who convinced Octavian to eschew titles and the trappings of authority, something that certainly endeared Octavian to the Senate and people of Rome and probably prolonged his rule.
		Maecenas' insistence on expressive freedom for his circle of artists and authors eventually led to some strain on his relationship with Octavian, but he always retained the respect and trust of the emperor.
		Maecenas was the archetype of wealthy, generous patrons of the arts, and his name is still memorialized in numerous organizations and events that patronize the arts (the Pittsburgh Opera, for example, has an annual "Maecenas" fund raiser).
	www.mmdtkw.org /VMaecenas.html (356 words)

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		Maecenas took time to form his estimate of the man, and it was not till nine months after their first interview that he sent for Horace again.
		At the time of Horace's introduction to him, Maecenas was probably at his best, in the full vigour of his intellect, and alive with the generous emotions which must have animated a man bent as he was on securing tranquillity for the state, and healing the strife of factions, which were threatening it with ruin.
		Maecenas is of the party, and comes in leaning heavily on the two umbrae (guests of his own inviting) whom he has brought with him,--habitués of what Augustus called his "parasitical table," who make talk and find buffoonery for him.
	www.gutenberg.net /dirs/etext05/8hrce10.txt (14308 words)

	Horace and Maecenas. Satire 1.5
		Maecenas was a man on his way up, and there would have been plenty of tasks that Horace could have performed.
		There are plenty of jokes for Maecenas and his cronies to guffaw over when the poem is read to them when they are back in Rome.
		In reality Maecenas had arranged to meet up with Octavian at Sinuessa, from where they would proceed to Tarentum near Brindisi where a deal would be hammered out with their arch-enemy Anthony.
	www.harrys-stuff.com /horace/horace-maecenas.php (534 words)

	Cramer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		According to the Roman moralizing tradition, it was supposed to be impossible for a man to be both mollis, solutus, discinctus etc. and a competent leader (Corbeill 1996; Edwards 1993; Graver 1998).
		Seneca uses Maecenas’ bodily hexis and prose style to argue that his mind must be corrupt and that therefore he cannot receive credit even for his otherwise praiseworthy acts, such as his mansuetudo.
		He could have made the opposite argument, namely that Maecenas’ services to the state were done for the right reasons and so counted as “right actions,” while downplaying his conspicuous habits and excusing them as justifiable as the poets seem to be doing.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/99mtg/abstracts/Cramer.html (345 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 890 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		MAECENAS, C. Of the life of Maecenas we must be content to glean what scattered notices we can from the poets and historians of Rome$ since it does not appear to have been formally recorded by any ancient author.
		The maternal branch of the family was likewise of Etruscan origin, and it was from them that the name of Maecenas was derived, it being customary among the Etruscans to assume the mother's as well as the father's name.
		The names both of Cilnius and Maecenas occur on Etruscan cinerary urns, but always separately, a fact from which Miiller, in his JEtrusker, has inferred that the union of the two families did not take place till a late period.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1998.html (808 words)

	Death of Horace and Maecenas
		Maecenas was immensely rich - it is inconceivable that he would not have made a will.
		Octavian would not be interested in Maecenas wealth as much as he would be in the power it could bestow on a recipient other than himself.
		There would be letters stored in Maecenas' archives that Octavian had written to Maecenas decades before, necessary at the time, but they would not show Octavian in a good light now.
	www.harrys-stuff.com /horace/death-horace-maecenas.php (348 words)

	Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Gaius Maecenas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Gaius Maecenas was the descendant of an Etruscan family and belonged to the "bourgeois" class of Roman knights.
		The aim of this circle was twofold: to encourage the arts - Maecenas himself was a poet and a refine connoisseur - and to orchestrate political propaganda in favour of Augustus; it succeeded in both goals.
		Maecenas' love for his own sex was common knowledge in his time and his own set, but it is today generally silenced.
	www.andrejkoymasky.com /liv/fam/biom1/maec1.html (268 words)

	Maecenas
		After the fall of Anthony, Maecenas was potentially one of the most powerful men in the world.
		A case in point is the question of the seals which Octavian is supposed to have given Maecenas and Agrippa.
		Maecenas was a powerful man in his own right, and as such he would need subordinates who could effectively assist in advancing his projects.
	www.harrys-stuff.com /horace/maecenas.php (698 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1999.11.11
		The first Epistle is both dedication to Maecenas and recusatio, in which she assumes that Horace demonstrates that he, not Maecenas, is the "benefactor" by insisting that he has done enough (satis 2) as a metaphorical gladiator.
		She is particularly interesting in her view of the complicated story of Mena, which somehow epitomizes the ambiguities of the positions of Horace and Maecenas, especially with its Sabine villa that becomes a curse for poor Mena.
		Horace was addressing a new generation and a very different cultural situation, and I suggest that his position with Maecenas constitutes a comfortable model, not an embarrassing parallel, by which to measure the uncertain futures and dubious talents of Scaeva and Lollius.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr-cgi-dev/1999/1999-11-11.html (2978 words)

	Who is Maecenas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Maecenas was a prominent figure in providing support for various well-known classical artists.
		By asking Maecenas to support her art, Wheatley is trying to place herself on par with Homer and Virgil because if Maecenas lived during the time of these great writers and is willing to support her then she must be just as prolific.
		In begging Maecenas for the chance to gain his support she is playing into white stereotypes of the African American as lesser.
	www.iona.edu /faculty/dwilliams/garritano/Maecenas.htm (185 words)

	Epode III
		Maecenas amice (Maecenas in battle risking his life for his patron Caesar, epode 1) has taken a different stance, iocose Maecenas (on the banquet couch at a party with his cliens).
		Maecenas, you fight for Caesar as you can, and I fight for you Maecenas as I can.
		The Romans use garlic, and Horace is just having some fun with his friend Maecenas.” I do doubt that Horace teases with Maecenas and that the tone of this piece is predominantly comic.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/tjohnson/tj/Epode3.htm (1458 words)

	Maecenas has been extolled throughout the ages as a generous patron, yet this is a role for which he became famous only ...
		Maecenas has been extolled throughout the ages as a generous patron, yet this is a role for which he became famous only after
		Martial refers to Maecenas' role as patron five times (1.107; 7.29; 8.55(56); 11.3; 12.3(4), connecting him to the same poets (Virgil, Varius, and Horace) named by Neronian court poets as lucky benefactors of Maecenas' generosity in poems that request similar remuneration.
		When Martial pines for a Maecenas, he pines for a type of patronage that he in fact helps to idealize while energizing a genre generally considered a Greek specialty or amateur sport.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/05mtg/abstracts/BYRNE.html (428 words)

	PHILLIS WHEATLEY - 'TO MAECENAS' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		However, Parnassus is also a symbol of poetry, therefore, these lines could be read quite differently: as the poet praises Maecenas, she gains the support of the patron, and as a result her poetry can continue to flourish and ring out.
		In accordance with Wheatley's strong Christian beliefs, the movement upward at the end of 'To Maecenas' may indicate her desire to depart from the inherent evil of the earth into perfect and sinless heaven.
		At the end of her poem, Wheatley is appealing to Maecenas to defend her songs, so that her music, and the music of other slaves, may provide them with the opportunity to be set free.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~cpercy/courses/442semchristine1.htm (422 words)

	03-35bow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dedicated to Maecenas as part of the exchange relationship of patronage, Horace's poetry is itself both a gift and a commodity, bestowing on the patron and dedicatee status in his lifetime and immortality thereafter (p.
		Maecenas' gift of the Sabine property is, in terms of this view, actually a loan.
		Thus the initial expenditure on the poet's part in writing the political odes on behalf of Maecenas, and ultimately, Augustus, is merely one foray in the lively exchange dynamic that Bowditch goes on to explore throughout the remainder of her book, from the perspective of Horace's other genres, most notably the Epistles.
	www.classics.und.ac.za /reviews/0335bow.htm (3017 words)

	Midas, Morgan, and Maecenas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Gaius Maecenas, a man of letters from Etruria in central Italy, was a powerful man and the principal political adviser to Octavian.
		Horace's letter to Maecenas is a testimony to the character of the relationship between the two men.
		An important aspect of the social hierarchy at Rome was the relationship between patrons and clients, by which the patron afforded protection, legal or financial, to the less well-off client, while in return the patron received political services and social deference (Gorney).
	www.wiu.edu /users/mfwc/wiu/midas.html (805 words)

	Arachnion, n. 2.1, May 1996 - Simpson: Two Small Thoughts on Cilnius Maecenas
		Maecenas' mother may or may not have been a Cilnia - without a direct reference to her, we have absolutely no way of knowing.
		The most reasonable understanding of the reference to Maecenas as Cilniorum smaragde, to my mind, is that Augustus has used the name of a great and well-known Etruscan family to recall generally Maecenas' Etruscan ancestry.
		Maecenas was of the tribe Pomptina, from the environs of Arezzo, ILS 7848.
	www.cisi.unito.it /arachne/num4/simpson.html (2047 words)

	Maecenas, Gaius -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Gaius Maecenas, marble bust; in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome
		The birthplace of Maecenas is unrecorded, but his mother's family, the Cilnii, had lorded it centuries earlier in Arretium (Arezzo, about 90 miles [145 km] north of Rome), and this was apparently also the hometown…
		Gaius Maecenas was a diplomat and counselor to the Roman emperor Augustus.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9049938?tocId=9049938 (699 words)

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		Maecenas felis eros, dictum eu, tincidunt a, congue ut, lectus.
		Maecenas tincidunt, orci eget venenatis molestie, neque augue mollis mauris, nec ultricies ipsum lectus ut lacus.
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	www.byte.org /blog/_archives/2004/7/12 (861 words)

	The Baldwin Project: Pictures from Roman Life and Story by Alfred J. Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Of Maecenas in his domestic relations there is little to be said that is to his credit.
		We may guess that it was Maecenas who introduced him to the Palace where he recited before the Emperor and his sister Octavia his splendid elegy on Marcellus, in whom the Emperor had lost a successor and Octavia an only son.
		We must be content with knowing that the liberality, the good taste, and the tact of Maecenas made his name proverbial as the model of the patrons of literature; and the patron, we must remember, was a necessity till the public came into existence.
	www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=church&book=roman&story=maecenas (2377 words)

	SIGNAINFERRE - Caio Cilnio Mecenate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Caius Cilnius Maecenas è discendente dei Cilnii potente etrusca gens di Arretium (odierna Arezzo) Forse questa famiglia della nobilitas etrusca, nel periodo monarchico, aveva dato dei re alla nazione etrusca.
		Maecenas insieme a Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa è l?unico vero amico di Caius Iulius Caesar Octavianus (futuro Augustus).
		Il nobil tuscus Maecenas è la persona adatta per poterlo sostituire nei periodi di sua assenza in Roma in quanto Maecenas è colto, nobile, intelligente, non amico della vecchia nobilitas in quanto etrusco.
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		Maecenas, Gaius (74?-8 bc), Roman statesman and patron of the arts.
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