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| Title | : | Julian |
| Author | : | Gore Vidal |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 528 pages |
| Published | : | August 12th 2003 by Vintage (first published 1964) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction |
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The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal’s finest historical novels.Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman Empire. A military genius on the level of Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, a graceful and persuasive essayist, and a philosopher devoted to worshiping the gods of Hellenism, he became embroiled in a fierce intellectual war with Christianity that provoked his murder at the age of thirty-two, only four years into his brilliantly humane and compassionate reign. A marvelously imaginative and insightful novel of classical antiquity, Julian captures the religious and political ferment of a desperate age and restores with blazing wit and vigor the legacy of an impassioned ruler.
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| Original Title: | Julian |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Julian the Apostate |
| Setting: | Roman Empire |
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Ratings: 4.19 From 5902 Users | 381 ReviewsCrit Epithetical Books Julian
A gripping but sad story about a would-be philosopher who reluctantly became emperor. Contrary to his predecessors, Constantine and Constantius II, he was tolerant and reasonable. A fervent Hellenist, he despised Christianity which had been made into the compulsory unique state religion by Constantine. While supporting religious freedom, Julian did his best to reinstate the old Roman values and religious traditions (many of which were themselves imported). Unfortunately, his tolerance wasWe are toys, and a divine child takes us up and puts us down, and breaks us when he chooses. Julian IIJulian was a child raised in the midst of turmoil. After the death of Constantine the Great in 337AD, there was a huge power vacuum in the Roman Empire, and Julians cousin Constantius II methodically eliminated all those who could potentially threaten his reign or those of his brothers. One of those executed was Julians father. Julian and his brother Gallus were spared. Their youth may have
I didn't think Vidal's "Burr" could be topped, but this earlier novel of Vidal's is even more extraordinary.Vidal creates a memoir by the Emperor Julian and presents it with the commentary of two friends. This novelization gives the reader a good understanding of the social and political dynamics of this often neglected period of history.I expect that the scholarship is as accurate as the critics contend which makes this book not just fiction, but literature, and a major achievement for its
And then, he wrote: I have been reading Plotinus all evening. He has the power to soothe me; and I find his sadness curiously comforting. Even when he writes: "Life here with the things of earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing." The wing has indeed failed. One sinks. Defeat is certain. Even as I write these lines, the lamp wick sputters to an end, and the pool of light in which I sit contracts. Soon the room will be One should read this to learn how novels are written. But,
We are toys, and a divine child takes us up and puts us down, and breaks us when he chooses. Julian IIJulian was a child raised in the midst of turmoil. After the death of Constantine the Great in 337AD, there was a huge power vacuum in the Roman Empire, and Julians cousin Constantius II methodically eliminated all those who could potentially threaten his reign or those of his brothers. One of those executed was Julians father. Julian and his brother Gallus were spared. Their youth may have
In my sad and maddening teenage years, I happened on my mothers copy of the Oxford Book of British Verse and read through it with the doggedness I had at the time. One poem that hit me hard was Algernon Charles Swinburnes Hymn to Proserpina, written in the voice of a Roman lamenting the passing of the old gods as Rome embraced Christianity. It begins with the line Vicisti, Galilæe, which, I am told, translates to Thou hast conquered, Galilean, and, I am told, was not said by the Emperor Julian
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