Marius the Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideas by Walter Pater

Marius the Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideas

Walter Pater

364 pages first pub 1885 (editions)

fiction classics historical challenging reflective slow-paced
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An elaborately written philosophical novel of ancient Rome which incorporates a retelling of Apuleius' story of Cupid and Psyche. It was as a critic and a humanist that Walter Pater (1839-1894), professor at Oxford, led the revival of interest in ...

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