A religion of brotherhood and mildness which daily murders those who disagree with its doctrines can only be thought hypocrite, or worse.”. ― Gore Vidal, Julian. tags: , arianism, athanasian, brotherhood, christian-hypocrisy, christianity, heresy, heretics, holy-war, hypocrisy, julian. 2 bltadwin.ru by: 2. Gore Vidal definitely brings it to life (TMI!). The summary is that Julian's family was killed by Christians, then he was raised but great Christians but ultimately rejected the philosophy and basically became a High Priest in Greek mythology, which had power then and wasn't a myth/5(). Julian is a well crafted historical fictional soliloquy written by Gore Vidal in It is some five hundred pages in length but moves along quickly. Covering the thirty-two year life of the last of the great Roman emperors, the story includes palace intrigue, a great deal of history, fascinating war campaigns and then ultimate betrayal/5().
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (/ v ɪ ˈ d ɑː l /; born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, - J) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner. Vidal was bisexual, and in his novels and essays interrogated the social and cultural sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Beyond literature, Vidal was heavily. Gore Vidal (* 3. Oktober als Eugene Luther Vidal jr. in West Point, New York - + Juli in Los Angeles, Kalifornien) war ein kritischer US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller, Drehbuchautor, Schauspieler und Politiker. The American rake and raconteur Gore Vidal repurposed the emperor as a queer hero of liberalism in his unusual novel Julian, having his protagonist humanely exclaim that "Truth is where ever man has glimpsed divinity." Where some had seen those intimations in Golgotha's sacrifice, the Apostate saw them in the oracles of Chaldea or.
More than anything, "Julian" is a lament for the vanished Hellenic world. The main characters of the novel are all pagans. As Julian follows his quest to restore the old gods, everywhere he is confronted with omens that his efforts are too late. The old classical world is vanishing, replaced by a new, ugly world. Overview. The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal’s finest historical novels. Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman Empire. Julian is a historical novel by Gore Vidal. Advertisement: Seventeen years after Julian the Apostate, so-named for his efforts to revive Hellenistic paganism, was slain on the battlefield, Nicene Christianity has become the state religion.
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