JULIAN: The Last Pagan Emperor of Rome, by Philip Freeman
. Published by Yale University Press, the audio was released by Tantor, licensed by YUP (June 2024).
. Published by Yale University Press, the audio was released by Tantor, licensed by YUP (June 2024).Philip’s works are remarkably lively and exciting to read.
Here’s a little about the subject of this volume in YUP’s “Ancient Lives” series.
“When we think of ancient Rome, it’s impossible not to think of Christianity, one of its most notable exports-but what if it hadn’t been? This is the question provoked by classicist Philip Freeman in Julian, an appealing new entry in Yale’s Ancient Lives series, which tells the story of the old faith’s last imperial torchbearer.”-Anna Heyward, New York Times Book Review
Flavius Claudius Julianus, or Julian the Apostate, ruled Rome as sole emperor for just a year and a half, from 361 to 363, but during that time he turned the world upside down. Although a nephew of Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor of Rome, Julian fought to return Rome to the old gods who had led his ancestors to build their vast empire.