Julian

Description:

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: 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,  Fiction, historical, general

People: Julian Emperor of Rome (331-363),  Apostate Julianus Emperor of Rome (331-363)

Places: Rome

Times: Julian, 361-363