Julian is Gore Vidal’s fictional recreation of the Roman Empire teetering on the crux of Christianity and ruled by an emperor, Flavius Claudius Julianus, who was an inveterate dabbler in arcane hocus-pocus, a prig, a bigot, and a dazzling and brilliant leader.
Last of the Pagans
Vidal explores this confrontation between old and new in a fictive autobiography drawing on three surviving volumes of Julian’s letters and essays, and contemporary recollections. In doing so, he...
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