Julian: Volume 1 by Julian (Hardcover, 1913)

Name: Julian: Volume 1 by Julian (Hardcover, 1913)
Brand: Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press

Julian, Volume IOrations 15\nAuthor(s): Julian, Wilmer C. Wright\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Harvard University Press, United States\nImprint: LOEB\nISBN-13: 9780674990142, 978-0674990142\nSynopsis\nThe emperor who renounced Christianity.\n\nJulian (Flavius Claudius Iulianus) the Apostate, Roman Emperor, lived AD 331 or 332 to 363. Born and educated in Constantinople as a Christian, after a precarious childhood he devoted himself to literature and philosophy and became a pagan, studying in various Greek cities. In 355 his cousin Emperor Constantius called him from Athens to the court at Milan, entitled him Caesar, and made him governor of Gaul. Julian restored Gaul to prosperity and good government after the ravages of the Alamanni (he overthrew them at the battle of Strassburg in 357) and other Germans. Between 357 and 361 Julians own soldiers, refusing to serve in the East at Constantius orders, nearly involved Julian in war with Constantiuswho, however, died in 361, making Juli.