Marius the Epicurean, Volume 1

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In Category - *Non-fiction, Philosophy

Authors: Walter Pater In Year : 1885

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Marius the Epicurean, Volume 1

The Religion of Numa
White-Nights
Dilexi decorem domus tuae
The Tree of Knowledge
The Golden Book
Euphuism
A Pagan End
Animula Vagula
New Cyrenaicism
On the Way
The Most Religious City in the World
The Divinity that Doth Hedge a King
The Mistress and Mother of Palaces
Manly Amusement

Marius the Epicurean is a philosophical novel written by Walter Pater, published in 1885. In it Pater displays, with fullness and elaboration, his ideal of the aesthetic life, his cult of beauty as opposed to bare asceticism, and his theory of the stimulating effect of the pursuit of beauty as an ideal of its own. The principles of what would be known as the Aesthetic movement were partly traceable to this book; and its impact was particularly felt on one of the movement's leading proponents, Oscar Wilde, a former student of Pater at Oxford. (Summary from Wikipedia)