Person Information

Biography

Important Roman patron of the arts (c 70 BC - 8BC). Patron of Horace and Virgil, friend to Caesar Augustus. Mentioned in WHS's travel letters while in Rome in 1859.

Letter References

Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, August 18, 1859

Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Adeline Seward, August 27, 1859

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Biography: 
Important Roman patron of the arts (c 70 BC - 8BC). Patron of Horace and Virgil, friend to Caesar Augustus. Mentioned in WHS's travel letters while in Rome in 1859.
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Encyclopaedia Brittanica - Gaius Maecenas
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