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Marius the Epicurean

by Walter Pater

A young man in the second-century Roman empire explores philosophy and religion as he travels through life.

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The opening carries us to the Roman countryside, where the "religion of Numa" persists like the very breath of the fields. Here we meet young Marius, whose spontaneous devotion rekindles a faith on the verge of extinction.

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