Editing Gaius Maecenas (section)

==References==

===Primary sources===
*[[Dio Cassius]]
*[[Tacitus]], ''Annals''
*[[Suetonius]], ''Augustus''
*[[Horace]], ''Odes'' with ''Scholia''
*[[Horace]], ''Satires'' i.8.14 – "nunc licet Esquiliis habitare salubribus atque / aggere in aprico spatiari, quo modo tristes / albis informem spectabant ossibus agrum,/cum mihi non tantum furesque feraeque suetae/hunc vexare locum curae sunt atque labori/quantum carminibus quae versant atque venenis/humanos animos: has nullo perdere possum/nec prohibere modo, simul ac vaga luna decorum/protulit os, quin ossa legant herbasque nocentis."
*Acro, Porphyrio, and Comm. Cruq. ad loc.
*[https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/Horti_Maecenatis.html Topographical Dictionary]

===Secondary sources===
* [[Victor Gardthausen|V. Gardthausen]], ''Augustus and seine Zeit'', i. 762 seq. ; ii. 432 seq.
* Nora Goldschmidt, "Friends in High Places" (review of [[Emily Gowers]], ''Rome's Patron: The Lives and Afterlives of Maecenas'', Princeton, February 2024, {{ISBN|978 0 691 193144}}, 463 pp.), ''[[London Review of Books]]'', vol. 46, no. 14 (18 July 2024), pp. 33-34. "However little we know about the real Maecenas, his shifting role as the archetypal patron of the arts – shaped by the Roman poets he supported – has defied oblivion..." (p. 34.)
* {{EB1911|wstitle=Maecenas, Gaius|volume=17|pages=296–297}}
* {{cite journal |last= André|first= Jean-Marie |date= 1967 |title= Mécène. Essai de biographie spirituelle|url= http://www.persee.fr/doc/ista_0000-0000_1967_mon_86_1|language= fr|journal= Annales littéraires de l'Université de Besançon |volume= 86 |issue= 86 |doi= 10.3406/ista.1967.1011 |isbn= 2251600868 }}
* The fragments of Maecenas' poetry have been collected and edited by J. Blänsdorf (ed.),
* Philippe Le Doze, "Mécène. Ombres et flamboyances", Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2014.
::''Fragmenta poetarum Latinorum epicorum et lyricorum praeter Ennium et Lucilium'', 3rd ed., Stuttgart: [[Teubner]], 1995, pp. 243–48.
* S. Lyons, ''Music in the Odes of Horace'', 2010, Oxford, Aris and Phillips ({{ISBN|978-0-85668-844-7}}).

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