Marius the Epicurean (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Walter Pater
- First Published: 1885
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Philosophical
- Time of Work: Second century
- Genres: Long fiction, Philosophical realism
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Friendship, Christianity, Ethics, Soldiers, Greek or Roman times, Students or student life, Rome, Second century
- Locales: Roman Empire, Rome, ancient, Pisa, Italy
Places Discussed
*Rome. Center of the Roman Empire. When Marius first looks out upon Rome it appears to him as a “vast intellectual museum,” and that colors his view of all its various components—not merely its many pagan shrines, its multilayered tombs, and its many ruins, but its functioning institutions: the Forum, where the body of Aurelius’s brother Lucius Verus is set to lie in state before the tribunal before being conveyed to its funeral pyre in the Campus Martius; the Marmorata, where precious marbles are accumulated; the Appian Way, more cemetery than...
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