Julian
by Gore Vidal
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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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History, Emperors, Gay men's writings, American, Fiction, Cults, Gay men, Sailors, Men, Religious fanaticism, Sexuality, Americans, World War, 1939-1945, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, historical, Rome (italy), fiction, Protected DAISY, In library, Fiction, historical, generalPlaces
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Julian: Williwaw ; The judgment of Paris ; Messiah ; The city and the pillar
1979, Octopus/Heinemann
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0905712390 9780905712390
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