Gaius Maecenas
? – 8 BCE
Roman

Politician. As patron of Horace, he came to embody patronage of the arts.

Contemporaries
70–19 BCEVirgil
42 BCE–37Tiberius
48–15 BCESextus Propertius
43 BCE–17Ovid
fl. 50 BCELucretius
110–57 BCELucius Lucullus
58 BCE–29Drusilla Livia
39 BCE–14Julia
65–8 BCEHorace
106–43 BCEMarcus Cicero
84–54 BCEGaius Catullus
101–44 BCEJulius Caesar
85–42 BCEMarcus Brutus
63 BCE–14Augustus
110–32 BCETitus Pomponius Atticus
83–30 BCEMarcus Antonius