Julian
a novel
About this book
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.
Subjects
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- americans
- cults
- emperors
- fiction
- fiction, historical
- fiction, historical, general
- gay men
- gay men's writings, american
- history
- men
- religious fanaticism
- rome (italy), fiction
- sailors
- sexuality
- world war, 1939-1945