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Julian's mother died shortly after he was born, and he spent his childhood in Constantinople, forming a lasting attachment to the city. [10] Julian was probably raised with Greek as his first language, [9] and, being the nephew of Rome's first Christian emperor, he was brought up under the Christian faith. [10] Rome solidus minted c. 356.
Against the Galileans (Ancient Greek: Κατὰ Γαλιλαίων; Latin: Contra Galilaeos), meaning Christians, was a Greek polemical essay written by the Roman emperor Julian, commonly known as Julian the Apostate, during his short reign (361–363).
Both Eastern and Western cultural traditions ascribe special significance to words uttered at or near death, [4] but the form and content of reported last words may depend on cultural context. There is a tradition in Hindu and Buddhist cultures of an expectation of a meaningful farewell statement; Zen monks by long custom are expected to ...
The epigraph at the beginning of the poem is the phrase Vicisti, Galilaee, Latin for "You have conquered, O Galilean", the supposed dying words of the Emperor Julian. [2] He had tried to reverse the official endorsement of Christianity by the Roman Empire .
On November 3, 361, Constantius II died in the city of Mopsucrene, leaving his cousin Flavius Claudius Julianus, known to history as Julian the Apostate, as sole emperor of Rome. Arriving at Constantinople to oversee Constantius' burial, Julian immediately focused on domestic policy and began to greatly reform the Roman imperial government by ...
Hagiography has it that in 362, on behalf of his emperor Julian the Apostate, Oribasius visited the Delphic oracle, now in a rather desolate state, offering his emperor's services to the temple and, in return, receiving one of the last prophecies by the Delphic Pythia: Tell the emperor that my hall has fallen to the ground.
The Julian Romance is divided into three parts. The first part is a narrative of the Constantinian dynasty from the death of Constantine the Great (337) until the accession of Julian the Apostate (361) and the ensuing Julianic persecution of Christians. The second part is a narrative of the opposition of Eusebius of Rome to the persecution.
Julian was the last pagan ruler of the Roman Empire. It was his desire to bring the empire back to its ancient Roman values . [ 2 ] Another crucial and more sympathetic feature of Emperor Julian, is his disliking of his own dynasty, who, in the play at least, were claiming descent and authority for being Galileans , making Jesus Christ their ...