In the 4th century, Emperor Julian attempted something extraordinary. He tried to reverse the transformation of the Roman Empire and restore the ancient pagan traditions that had shaped Roman society ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...