For 10 points, name this novel set in Rome and conceived as a response to the author's The Renaissance, written by Walter Pater.
The title character of this work is in some catacombs looking at a statue before he enmeshes Demeter, Kore and Persephone into a triple deity that may represent ultimate reality in the fourth part of this novel. The protagonist chooses not to celebrate the Ambarvalia or Lucius Verus's marriage, but rather spends time talking to Cornelius of the Thundering Legion. Earlier, this work details the contents of the so-called "Golden Book" which is about Cupid and Psyche's love. This work's title character describes four religions which he uses while searching for the "Ideal," two of which are Stoicism and "the religion of Numa." It begins at White-Nights, where the protagonist, an amanuensis to Marcus Aurelius is looking for the two subtitular concepts, "Sensations and Ideas." For 10 points, name this novel set in Rome and conceived as a response to the author's The Renaissance, written by Walter Pater.
The title character of this work is in some catacombs looking at a statue before he enmeshes Demeter, Kore and Persephone into a triple deity that may represent ultimate reality in the fourth part of this novel.
Marius the Epicurean