Julian (Routledge Revivals)

Taylor & Francis

Julian (Routledge Revivals)An Intellectual Biography\nAuthor(s): Polymnia Athanassiadi\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138020399, 978-1138020399\nSynopsis\nJulian: An Intellectual Biography, first published in 1981, presents a penetrating and scholarly analysis of Julians intellectual development against the background of philosophy and religion in the late Roman Empire. \n\nProfessor Polymnia Athanassiadi tells the story of Julians transformation from a reclusive and scholarly adolescent into a capable general and an audacious social reformer. However, his character was fraught with a great many contradictions, tensions and inconsistencies: he could be sensitive and intelligent, but also uncontrollably spontaneous and subject to alternating fits of considerable self-pity and self-delusion.\n\nAthanassiadi traces the Emperor Julians responses to personal and public challenges, and dwells on the conflicts that ea.