Hushang Ebtehaj who was poet and researcher, passed way

For instance, Gaius Cilnius Maecenas, friend to Caesar Augustus, was an important patron for the Augustan poets, including both Horace and Virgil. While Ovid, a well established poet, was banished from Rome by the first Augustus.Poets held an important position in pre-Islamic Arabic society with the poet or sha’ir filling the role of historian, soothsayer and propagandist.