JZL Small series: Patron

The name of this person has long been nominated. For the past two millennia, patients call those people who disinterestedly and generously help talented poets, writers, artists, architects, sculptors, musicians. Thanks to their kindness and care, brilliant works of literature and art are created. But, speaking of such people, we most often forget about a person who gave them their name, - Gaji Metzenate, who lived in ancient Rome in the first century to our era and the former companion of Emperor Oktaviana Augustus and the patron of the greatest Roman poets Horace, Vergil, Proper . It is about him that this book says, written on the basis of a scrupulous and complete analysis of all surviving sources