Gardens of Maecenas
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 25, 2021 01:00 PM
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History
The Gardens of Maecenas or "Horti Maecenatis" were extensive, planned gardens laid out on Rome's Esquiline Hill by Caius Cilinius Maecenas in the mid-30s B.C. These formal gardens occupied what had previously been the agger of the Servian walls and the adjacent necropolis that had an unsavory reputation. Following the death of Maecenas, the gardens became imperial property.
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https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/399141643
41.8940964, 12.5012225
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- Gardens of Maecenas (English, modern)
- Gardens of Maecenas part of (physical/topographic) Esquilinus Mons (unspecified date range)
- Gardens of Maecenas part of (analytical) Regio V (Esquiliae) (unspecified date range)
- Auditorium Maecenatis part of (physical/topographic) Gardens of Maecenas (30 BC - AD 300)
garden, hortus
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, and Brady Kiesling, 'Gardens of Maecenas: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/399141643> [accessed: 25 April 2025]
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