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His rejection of Christianity, and his promotion of Neoplatonic Hellenism in its place, caused him to be remembered as Julian the Apostate in Christian tradition. He is sometimes referred to as Julian the Philosopher .
Against the Galileans (Ancient Greek: Κατὰ Γαλιλαίων; Latin: Contra Galilaeos), meaning Christians, was a Greek polemical essay written by the Roman emperor Julian, commonly known as Julian the Apostate, during his short reign (361–363).
On November 3, 361, Constantius II died in the city of Mopsucrene, leaving his cousin Flavius Claudius Julianus, known to history as Julian the Apostate, as sole emperor of Rome. Arriving at Constantinople to oversee Constantius' burial, Julian immediately focused on domestic policy and began to greatly reform the Roman imperial government by ...
The military and political aims of the campaign are uncertain, and they are also disputed by both ancient and modern sources and historians. [9] According to Ammianus Marcellinus, Julian's aim was to enhance his fame as a general and to punish the Persians for their invasions of Rome's eastern provinces; for this reason, he refused Shapur's immediate offer of negotiations.
Julian vented his spleen in the famous satire, the Misopogon or Beard-Hater, in which, by pretending to satirize himself and the philosopher's beard which he wore in a clean-shaven age, he was able to pour forth his bitter anger against, and disappointment with, the people of Antioch.
Egil Eide as Julian in the 1903 Oslo premiere of Emperor and Galilean. Emperor and Galilean (in Norwegian: Kejser og Galilæer) is a play written by Henrik Ibsen. [1] Although it is one of the writer's lesser known plays, on several occasions Henrik Ibsen called Emperor and Galilean his major work.
Here is a timeline of some key dates spanning more than a decade of legal woes for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. – 2010 – August: An arrest warrant is issued for Assange over two separate ...
Julian invaded the Sasanian Empire with a force of 95,000 men, hoping to secure the eastern frontier [2] and to replace Shah Shapur II with his brother Hormisdas. [3] He split his force in two, one under his cousin Procopius numbering 30,000 men, [4] which marched to northern Mesopotamia, and the other consisting of 65,000 men under his own leadership.