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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Horace dedicated his Odes 1-3, Epodes, Satires
1
and Epistles 1 to Maecenas and mentions him passim; check any reputable
biography or description of Horace to find more since Horace had good reason to
be grateful to him as a patron. Of course, Virgil dedicated the <U>Georgics
</U>to him also, and was the person who introduced Horace to him
initially.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Any good classical dictionary will have an account of
Maecenas' life with numerous references under the name 'Maecenas' - with
sources, as does also a good, large Latin dictionary - references too many to
mention. For example </FONT><FONT color=#000000 size=2>in Latin or in
translation for primary source 'snippets' and details: </FONT></DIV>
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Horace.....for most mentions</FONT></DIV>
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Suetonius' Life of Augustus 66</FONT></DIV>
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Plutarch's Life of Augustus</FONT></DIV>
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Herodian(us) 7</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>
Seneca Epistles 19, 92, 114</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>
Pliny the Elder <U>Natural History </U>8.170</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>
Martial 8.55.5 and ....more</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>
Tacitus <U>Annals 1.54</U></FONT></DIV>
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size=2><U></U>
and <FONT color=#000000>more....</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><FONT color=#000000></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Suggest you look up 'Maecenas' and 'Literary Patronage' in
whatever background books to the Augustan Age you can find.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><FONT color=#000000></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Good hunting!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Sincerely,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Marjorie Rigby</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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I just checked out from our public library's new book section, "The
Devil Knows Latin: Why America Needs the Classical Tradition," by E.
Christian Kopff. I am in the process of reading it now. An initial
preview suggests it is going to be an insightful and fun book to read.
Beside the emphasis on Latin and Greek language and literature in
general, there are things in the book relevant to Virgil studies. Page
223, for example, has Kopff discussing the cost of victory. He writes:
"As in Virgil's Aeneid, a better society will emerge from the conflict,
but the cost in human suffering and loss is real -- and we must face
them."
I especially like Kopff's interesting details about Virgil translators.
C. Day Lewis is the father of the actor Daniel Day Lewis. Jackson Knight
supposedly contacted the spirit of Virgil through a medium. A question
for the list: Does anyone know more about Knight's seance? It is a
trivial question but, hey, even Virgil students need some good gossip
from time to time.
A more appropriate question for the list, instead of the above, might be
taken from the subtitle of Kopff's book. Do you think America needs the
classical tradition? It would be interesting to read what the list has to
say.
James C. Wiersum
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