Julian
Gore Vidal's fictional recreation of the Roman Empire teetering on the crux of Christianity and ruled by an emperor who was an inveterate dabbler in arcane hocus-pocus, a prig, a bigot, and a dazzling and brilliant leader.
Gore Vidal's fictional recreation of the Roman Empire teetering on the crux of Christianity and ruled by an emperor who was an inveterate dabbler in arcane hocus-pocus, a prig, a bigot, and a dazzling and brilliant leader.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780349104737 (0349104735)
Publish date: September 23rd 1993
Publisher: Abacus Books
Pages no: 544
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
American,
Historical Fiction,
20th Century,
Religion,
Politics,
Roman,
Ancient
"I was now a gawky adolescent with a beard thick on the chin, spotty on the upper lip, invisible on the cheeks. I looked frightful but I refused to shave. I am to be a philosopher, I said proudly; and that was that."- p. 58Gore Vidal has worked on a good number of films, most famously (at least afte...
Julian the Apostate was emperor of Rome from 361-363 CE and the nephew of Constantine. Raised in a strict Christian environment (although of the Arian tradition), he formally announced his conversion to paganism in 361 and became a public enemy of Christianity.That provides the background for Vidal'...
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