Julian
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Abacus
Published: September 23, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780349104737
Subjects: Modern fiction; Fiction
First sentence: Yesterday morning as I was about to enter the lecture hall, I was stopped by a Christian student who asked me in a voice eager with malice, "Have you heard about the Emperor Theodosius?"
Description: Vidal recreates the Roman empire teetering on the crux of Christianity and ruled by an emperor - Julian the Apostate - who was an inveterate dabbler in arcane hocus-pocus, a prig, a bigot and a dazzling and brilliant leader.