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Set in Rome during the reign of Marcus Aurelius (161-180 CE), this 19th-century novel follows young Marius as he sets off from his country estate to take his place in Roman society. We learn his reactions to Apuleius's Metamorphoses/The Golden Ass (which I highly recommend reading before this), Stoicism and Epicureanism, and Christianity.
Walter Pater's famous prose seems turgid these days, with its carefully nested comma-spattered clauses, but it is a wonderful example of high Victorian literatu ...more
Walter Pater's famous prose seems turgid these days, with its carefully nested comma-spattered clauses, but it is a wonderful example of high Victorian literatu ...more
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