This philosophical novel, published in 1885, uses the backdrop of Antonine Rome to elaborate Pater's ideas about Aestheticism. His hero, Marius, is a young Italian employed as private secretary to the emperor Marcus Aurelius. Pater developed a style in this novel, and elaborated on it in his later Imaginary Portraits, which later influenced such writers as Oscar Wilde and James Joyce.
| ISBN: | 9781411437869 |
| Publication date: | 15th February 2011 |
| Author: | Pater, Walter |
| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | Ebook (Epub) |