Marius The Epicurean

by Walter Pater

Published 1 January 1910
Marius the Epicurean was one of the most celebrated novels of the 19th century. Set in Rome in the second century A.D., it traces the "sensations" of its young hero Marius as he encounters pagan religion, Epicureanism, Stoicism, and finally Christianity. This is the frst edition of Marius the Epicurean since 1934.