Gore Vidal, then, has chosen an intriguing subject for a historical novel. Julian's life is reasonably well documented, through the Res Gestae written by Ammianus Marcellinus, and also (fascinatingly) by a few surviving works by Julian himself, such as his Misopogon ('Beard Hater', a satire against himself addressed to the citizens of Antioch who laughed at his philosopher's beard). · Overview. The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal’s finest historical novels. Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman www.doorway.ru · More than anything, "Julian" is a lament for the vanished Hellenic world. The main characters of the novel are all pagans. As Julian follows his quest to restore the old gods, everywhere he is confronted with omens that his efforts are too late. The Author: Cheruby.
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (/ v ɪ ˈ d ɑː l /; born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, - J) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner. Vidal was bisexual, and in his novels and essays interrogated the social and cultural sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Beyond literature, Vidal was heavily. Julian ascended to the throne in A.D. , at the age of twenty-nine, and was murdered four years later after an unsuccessful attempt to rebuke Christianity and restore the worship of the old gods. Now this historical tapestry is brought to vibrant life by the dazzling talent of Gore Vidal. Julian is a historical novel by Gore Vidal. Seventeen years after Julian the Apostate, so-named for his efforts to revive Hellenistic paganism, was slain on the battlefield, Nicene Christianity has become the state religion. His old teacher Libanius bemoans this and proposes to Julian's old friend Priscus that they write a biography using.
Julian is a well crafted historical fictional soliloquy written by Gore Vidal in It is some five hundred pages in length but moves along quickly. Covering the thirty-two year life of the last of the great Roman emperors, the story includes palace intrigue, a great deal of history, fascinating war campaigns and then ultimate betrayal. Julian is a novel by Gore Vidal, a work of historical fiction written primarily in the first person dealing with the life of the Roman emperor Flavius Claudius Julianus (known to Christians as Julian the Apostate), who reigned from to C.E. Julian. GORE VIDAL. For Lucien Price. A Note. Robert Graves, when he came to publish his sequel to I, Claudius, remarked in a somewhat irritable preface that a good many reviewers seemed to think he had simply spun himself a novel from Suetonius's gossip, which looked to them like a very easy thing to do.
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