Gaius Maecenas
The Gardens of Maecenas, or ("Horti Maecenatis") built by Gaius Maecenas, an Augustan-era patron of the arts, was an estate including a luxurious villa and buildings in the suburbs of Rome, in the Hellenistic-Persian garden style. He sited them on the Esquiline Hill, atop the agger of the Servian Wall and its adjoining necropolis, near the "horti Lamiani".