English Edition
Literature
Marius the Epicurean
English BooksWhale Edition by Walter Pater
Walter Pater’s philosophical historical novel of Roman culture, aesthetic experience, and spiritual searching.
- Preview
- A sample from the prepared text
- Formats
- Online reader, EPUB, PDF
- Access
- Library claim
Book introduction
Marius the Epicurean
Marius the Epicurean follows a young Roman through philosophy, art, friendship, Stoicism, Epicurean thought, and the early Christian world. This English edition presents Pater’s richly reflective prose for literary and philosophical readers.
BooksWhale edition
How this edition was prepared
This edition is based on a public domain text and has been prepared for digital reading by BooksWhale.
Public domain basis
Why this edition can be shared
Marius the Epicurean was first published in 1885, and Walter Pater died in 1894. These dates support the public-domain basis for this English source text.
Read preview
A sample from the prepared text
Preview selected from the prepared reader text.
Preview chapterFull textRead preview
Marius the Epicurean
Walter Pater
Preview chapterHIS SENSATIONS AND IDEASPreview
by WALTER PATER
Preview chapterVOLUME ONEPreview
London: 1910. (The Library Edition.)
PART THE FIRST 1. “The Religion of Numa” 2. White-Nights 3. Change of Air 4. The Tree of Knowledge 5. The Golden Book 6. Euphuism 7. A Pagan End
PART THE SECOND 8. Animula Vagula 9. New Cyrenaicism 10. On the Way 11. “The Most Religious City in the World” 12. “The Divinity that Doth Hedge a King” 13. The “Mistress and Mother” of Palaces 14. Manly Amusement
NOTES BY THE E-TEXT EDITOR:
Notes: I have placed an asterisk immediately after each of Pater’s footnotes and a + sign after my own notes, and have listed each of my notes at that chapter’s end.
Greek typeface: For this full-text edition, I have transliterated Pater’s Greek quotations. If there is a need for the original Greek, it can be viewed at my site, http://www.ajdrake.com/etexts, a Victorianist archive that contains the complete works of Walter Pater and many other nineteenth-century texts, mostly in first editions.
Table of contents
Inside this edition
- 01Full text
- 02HIS SENSATIONS AND IDEAS
- 03VOLUME ONE
- 04MARIUS THE EPICUREAN, VOLUME ONE WALTER PATER
- 05MARIUS THE EPICUREAN, VOLUME ONE
- 06PART THE FIRST
- 07CHAPTER I. “THE RELIGION OF NUMA”
- 08NOTES
- 09NOTES
- 10NOTES
- 11PART THE SECOND
- 12NOTES
- 13NOTES
- 14CHAPTER XI. “THE MOST RELIGIOUS CITY IN THE WORLD”
- 15NOTES
- 16NOTES
Language availability
Other languages
Additional language editions are not published yet. This section will link to other BooksWhale editions when they become available.
Request another language