Marius the Epicurean
Marius the Epicurean: his sensations and ideas is a historical and philosophical novel by Walter Pater ( his only completed full-length fiction ) , written between 1881 and 1884 , published in 1885 and set in 161–177 AD , in the Rome of the Antonines . 
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