Marius the Epicurean, Volume 1

Walter Pater (1839 - 1894)

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)

Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Philosophy

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 The Religion of Numa hefyd
00:16:51
Play 02 White-Nights hefyd
00:22:56
Play 03 Dilexi decorem domus tuae hefyd
00:25:09
Play 04 The Tree of Knowledge hefyd
00:19:27
Play 05 The Golden Book hefyd
01:01:29
Play 06 Euphuism hefyd
00:31:37
Play 07 A Pagan End hefyd
00:16:56
Play 08 Animula Vagula hefyd
00:36:46
Play 09 New Cyrenaicism hefyd
00:24:07
Play 10 On the Way hefyd
00:22:16
Play 11 The Most Religious City in the World hefyd
00:25:46
Play 12 The Divinity that Doth Hedge a King hefyd
00:39:58
Play 13 The Mistress and Mother of Palaces hefyd
00:30:17
Play 14 Manly Amusement hefyd
00:22:02