Marius the Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideas - Both Volumes of the Philosophic Novel, Complete

Walter Pater's coming-of-age novel is presented whole in this edition, that readers may witness the change in Marius's philosophical and spiritual views.

Marius is a young man living in Rome in the 2^nd century AD, a time when the classical traditions of philosophy were in their maturity. The educated man gravitates from one school of philosophy to another, and even enjoys a stint as secretary to the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, himself a stoic philosopher. As his mind encounters successive cereb...