Spenser included a dedicatory sonnet to Walsingham in the " Faerie Queene ", likening him to Maecenas who introduced Virgil to the Emperor Augustus.
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His last work was the novel " The Joke of Maecenas ", written in Sopot in 1923 and published in 1925 after his death.
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Gaius Maecenas, who informs them that the two generals who aided in defeating Antony have died, at which point Octavian claims the victory is his.
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Along with Maecenas, he stimulated patriotic poems, as Virgil's epic " Aeneid " and also historiographical works, like those of Livy.
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The " Monobiblos " must have attracted the attention of Maecenas, a patron of the arts who took Propertius into his circle of court poets.
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When Maecenas reveals that Atia and Mark Antony have resumed their affair and that Octavia is involved with Agrippa, a furious Octavian invites them all to dinner.
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He painted large altarpieces for his friend, the art maecenas and later martyr of the Protestant Reformation, ( also known as " Musius " ).
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The phrase came from Horace's " Maecenas, where he claims not to be devoted to any particular sect but is rather an eclectic by nature.
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There are also some indications in his verses that he was with Maecenas at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, where Octavian defeated his great rival, Antony.
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The power Sejanus attained in his capacity as prefect proved Maecenas right in his prediction to Augustus, that it was dangerous to allow one man to command the guard.
