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Title: Julian the Apostate by Glen W. Bowersock ISBN: 0-674-48882-2 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (12 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Pagan Martyr
Comment: Julian the Apostate, the last pagan emperor of Rome, has been a central part of Christian demonology for the best part of the last two millenia. At his death, Christian tradition holds that he cried, "Vicisti, Galilaueus," i.e., Christ, you have conquered me! Recently, revisionist writers have sought to resurrect Julian as a noble martyr to the grand lost Pagan cause. As this able and concise biography shows, the truth about Julian is infinitely less glamorous. On the plus side, Julian was an extremely able warrior, trusted by his men and brave in battle. He was also a keen student of Hellenic culture, popular in Greece and utterly sincere in his desire to reinvigorate the pan-theistic system. On the minus side, he was an utterly inept politician who simply couldn't comprehend that the pagan religion was so irreversibly in decline. As Bowersock explains, some of his political naivete may have arisen from Julian's years of isolation under house arrest at the hands of his predecessor emperor. Even though Julian fell in battle fighting the Persians, his true demise came somewhat earlier, in Antioch where he met humiliation in trying to organize a pagan sacrifice. This is a balanced yet unsparing portrait of a man who, while no demon, was nonetheless married to a lost cause.
Rating: 5
Summary: An historical classic
Comment: An excellent book, made more excellent still by its brevity. Bowersock takes less than 200 pages to give us a vivid understanding of this odd emperor. Reading this after being drawn in by Gore Vidal's amateurish attempt in "Julian" is a real education. HIGHLY recommended!
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Introduction to Pagan Intolerance
Comment: I dove into this book after recently "discovering" the last pagan Roman Emperor, Julian the Apostate. I was pleasantly surprised to find an objective appraisal of an unpopular puritannical reactionary. I expected to read a romantic account of a leader who represented a dying religion. This book was an uncompromising account of the unrealistic ambitions of a man who was out of step with his times and the religious realities of his age.
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Title: Works of the Emperor Julian/Loeb Classical Library, No. 157 by Julian, Wilmer C. Wright ISBN: 0674991737 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 1932 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: Constantine and the Bishops: The Politics of Intolerance by H. A. Drake ISBN: 0801871042 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Athanasius and Constantius: Theology and Politics in the Constantinian Empire by Timothy D. Barnes ISBN: 067400549X Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by Bart D. Ehrman ISBN: 0195141830 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Rise of Christianity by W. H. C. Frend ISBN: 0800619315 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $36.00 |
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