Publius Lollius Maximus

Publius Lollius Maximus also known as Lollius Maximus and Maximus Lollius was a Roman soldier who lived in the 1st century BC who served under the first Roman emperor Augustus.

Family Maximus was a member of the plebeian gens Lollia. His name is often mentioned in Latin poetry which occurs in a later inscription.

The father of Maximus had owned a country estate.

Career and Horace Maximus had served as a Roman soldier in Hispania against the Cantabri Maximus being a young man, became a friend of the Roman Poet Horace. He is experiencing problems as being a courtier. If his nobility is recent, this might expose Maximus to all sort of snubs in the hierarchy of Roman society. Maximus needs advice on treading the path of independence with a hierarchical aristocracy now transforming itself into a royal court.

At this time Maximus, may have turned his hand to poetry and must have been offered a post in the Retinue of the future Roman emperor Tiberius. The date of this event, may have taken place in 20 BC.

Maximus being a possible historian could also be confirmed by Horace. In one of Horace's Epistles, addressed to Maximus, Horace advises him to read Homer for the moral and philosophical content of the epics. He began: The writer of the Trojan war, Maximus Lollius, while you practiced speaking in Rome, I reread at Praeneste.

There is a possibility that Maximus could have been an ancient historian on Trojan history. Chaucer with his early readers, could well have believed in the existence of Maximus being an authority on history. However, there is no such historian, ancient or modern known to the world as Lollius Maximus. This claim can make available a major literary discovery of a lost work.