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Julian the Apostate presiding at a conference of sectarians, by Edward Armitage, 1875. After gaining the purple, Julian started a religious reformation of the empire, which was intended to restore the lost strength of the Roman state. He supported the restoration of Hellenistic polytheism as the state religion.
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).
Subterranean fires defeat Julian's effort to rebuild the temple, illustration by James Dabney, 1877 There was an aborted project under Roman emperor Julian (361–363 CE) to rebuild the Temple. Julian is traditionally called Julian the Apostate due to his policy of reversing Emperor Constantine 's Christianization campaign by restoring ...
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The physiognomic features of the saint with a full cheek face, curly hair up to the ears, short dark beard and mustache, as well as the modeling of his helmet, direct the closest analogies to the Church of the Assumption of the Most Holy Mother of God in Velestovo, near Ohrid, more precisely towards the image of St. Mercurius painted in 1444.
Julian moved to Antioch in 362, soon after becoming the sole ruler of the eastern empire, following the death of Constantius II.He was the last non-Christian ruler of the Roman Empire, and chose Antioch as his headquarters, partly to lay plans for his proposed campaign against the Persians and partly to further his attempt to restore the eastern empire to Hellenism.
Julian was Roman co-emperor since 355, and ruled solely for 18 months 361–363. Known to Christians as "Julian the Apostate", he was a nephew of Constantine the Great and received a Christian training. Following the death of Constantine, he witnessed the assassination of his father, brother and other family members by the guards of the ...
Constantius's successor, Julian, known in the Christian world as Julian the Apostate, was a philosopher who upon becoming emperor renounced Christianity and embraced a Neo-platonic and mystical form of paganism shocking the Christian establishment. While not actually outlawing Christianity, he became intent on re-establishing the prestige of ...