Adrian Murdoch

The Last Pagan: Julian the Apostate and the Death of the Ancient World

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Produktbeschreibung

History / Biography"A thoroughly engaging book about one of the fourth century's most interesting emperors."--The Journal of Classics Teaching"Keenly paced and beautifully written . . . quite simply one of the best historical biographies of the year."--Catholic Herald"Friendly to its controversial subject and an easy read."--Church TimesThe violent death of the emperor Julian (Flavius Claudius Julianus, AD 332-363) on a Persian battlefield has become synonymous with the death of paganism. Vilified throughout history as the "Apostate," the young philosopher-warrior was the last and arguably the most potent threat to Christianity.The Last Pagan examines Julian's journey from an aristocratic Christian childhood to his initiation into pagan cults and his mission to establish paganism as the dominant faith of the Roman world. Julian's death, only two years into his reign, initiated a culture-wide suppression by the Church of all things it chose to identify as pagan. Only in recent decades, with the weakening of the Church's influence and the resurgence of paganism, have the effects of that suppression begun to wane. Drawing upon more than 700 pages of Julian's original writings, Adrian Murdoch shows that had Julian lived longer our history and our present-day culture would likely be very different.ADRIAN MURDOCH is a historian and journalist. He is the author of Rome's Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest and The Last Roman, a biography of Romulus Augustulus, the Western Roman Empire's final emperor. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
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• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9781594772269
• ISBN-10: 1594772266
• Artikelnr.: 23166122

Autorenporträt

Adrian Murdoch is a historian and journalist. He is the author of Rome’s Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest and The Last Roman, a biography of Romulus Augustulus, the Western Roman Empire’s final emperor. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Plates and Maps
Acknowledgments
A Note on Names
Introduction: The Brittle Glass
1 Return of the Gods
2 A Written Order
3 Heart of Fire
4 Out of the Darkness
5 The Shadow of Sacred Plumes
6 Sung in Vain
7 Nothing in Excess, Augustus
8 Where King Nebuchadnezzar Grazed
9 Present Opportunity
10 Toward the Islands of the Blest
Epilogue: By the Silvery Kydnos
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index