What if the Roman Empire had not remained Christian and instead returned to paganism? The course of nearly two thousand years of Western history would look very different indeed. A recent contribution ...
Written for THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKS by George S. Hellman. New York Times subscribers* enjoy full access to TimesMachine—view over 150 years of New York Times journalism, as it ...
Spanning 12 years in the 4th century A.D., Henrik Ibsen's ten-act, two-part epic about Emperor Julian seeking to banish Christianity is cross between an admirable endeavour and an argumentative ...
JULIAN by Gore Vidal. 503 pages. Little, Brown. $6.95. No odder figure ever guided the destinies of the Holy Roman Empire than the Emperor Julian Augustus (circa 331-363), known as Julian the Apostate ...
A Christian Rebutting of Emperor Julian's Defense of Paganism. Saint Cyril of Alexandria was born about the year 376 in Egypt, then part of the Roman empire. From 412 until his death in 444 he served ...
Playwright Ben Power has demonstrated, notably in his reworking of Faust and Paradise Lost, the sort of intellectual rigour that gives the brain cells a bracing workout in the theatre. He’s conflated ...
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