Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #318946 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 280 pages

Customer Reviews

Excellent!
A fascinating and yet scholarly account of Julian's life and the influence he exerted on the empire he led - recommended.

Fascinating parallels with modern events in Iraq
I loved this - a great and human insight into a period of classical history that normally gets ignored. I remember bits of classical Greece or Caesar's times, but hadn't ever looked at the later years of the Romans - the fourth century AD.

The research has been well done, but condensed into a story about a single man - real insight into the society and structure of the late Roman times.

And of course the whole episode of his invading Mesopotamia (Iraq now) was fascinating - from his mistakes and over-reaching to his eventual death. (The detective work round his cause of death was particularly interesting).

Highly recommended.

Good introduction to an interesting issue/figure
Excellent. I'm generally interested in history (part. ancient history), but this wasn't an area I knew much about. Interesting to see paganism as the mainstream and traditional state religion, challenged by upstart Christianity! Both authoritative and very readable - recommended.