Julian

By Gore Vidal

Subjects: Gay men, Religious fanaticism, Emperors, Sexuality, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general, World War, 1939-1945, Protected DAISY, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Rome (italy), fiction, In library, Americans, History, Gay men's writings, American, Men, Cults, Sailors

Description: Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman Empire. A military genius on the level of Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, a graceful and persuasive essayist, and a philosopher devoted to worshiping the gods of Hellenism, he became embroiled in a fierce intellectual war with Christianity that provoked his murder at the age of thirty-two, only four years into his brilliantly humane and compassionate reign. A marvelously imaginative and insightful novel of classical antiquity, Julian captures the religious and political ferment of a desperate age and restores with blazing wit and vigor the legacy of an impassioned ruler.