Walter Pater
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Walter Horatio Pater was an English essayist, art and literary critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His first and most often reprinted book, Studies in the History of the
Pater in the 1890s (photograph by Elliott & Fry)
Pater as a young don at Brasenose
Walter Pater lived at 2 Bradmore Road in North Oxford (the right-hand house with a blue plaque) between 1869 and 1885 with his sisters, including Clara Pater, a pioneer of women's education.
Plaque at 2 Bradmore Road, Oxford
Marius the Epicurean
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Marius the Epicurean: his sensations and ideas is a historical and philosophical novel by Walter Pater, written between 1881 and 1884, published in 1885 and set in 161–177 AD, in the Rome of the Anton
Walter Pater
…1882, though he retained his Fellowship and the college rooms he had occupied since 1864, and made a research visit to Rome. In his philosophical novel Marius the Epicurean (1885), an extended imaginary portrait set in the Rome of the Antonines, which Pater believed had parallels with his own century, he examines the…
Cupid and Psyche by François-Edouard Picot (1817). Pater's much-admired translation of Apuleius's "Cupid and Psyche" is one of the interpolated texts in Marius the Epicurean
Marcus Aurelius and members of the Imperial family offer sacrifice at the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, in gratitude for success against Germanic tribes - an episode described in Marius
The Sabine Hills, scene of Marius's epiphany (painting by Thomas Cole, 1846)