Marius the Epicurian
| Title | Marius the Epicurian
his sensations and ideas |
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| Author | by Walter Pater |
| Publication | Macmillan |
| Size | 351p |
| Language |  ENG |
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| Topics |
English fiction--Historical English fiction--Philosophical Rome--History--30 BC-476 AD (Empire) Rome--History--Fiction |
| Notes | In his philosophical novel Marius the Epicurean (1885), an extended imaginary portrait set in 161-177 AD in the Rome of the Antonines, which Pater believed had parallels with his own century, he examines the "sensations and ideas" of a young Roman of integrity, who pursues an ideal of the "aesthetic" life – a life based on αἴσθησις, sensation – tempered by asceticism. Leaving behind the religion of his childhood, sampling one philosophy after another, becoming secretary to the Stoic emperor Marcus Aurelius, Marius tests his author's theory of the stimulating effect of the pursuit of sensation and insight as an ideal in itself. The novel's opening and closing episodes betray Pater's continuing nostalgia for the atmosphere, ritual and community of the religious faith he had lost. Marius was favourably reviewed and sold well. [wikipedia] |
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