A patchwork of scenes skillfully woven together to present a brilliant backdrop of dying pagan Rome. The rise of Christianity fails to be embraced by all, however. So it is that these conflicting ideals are married within the descendant of Emperor Constantine.
This historical fiction has everything y

La obra del escritor ruso nos adentra en uno de los episodios más paradójicos de la historia bajoimperial romana: el del emperador Flavius Claudius Iulianus, conocido ulteriormente por la historiografía cristiana como el apóstata. Se trató del último intento, desde el poder, que las fuerzas paganas

Dmitri Merezhkovsky was a co-founder of the Russian Symbolist movement. I have never been a big fan of Russian symbolist poetry or generally of works of Russian Silver Age writers, though I confess a fondness for Alexander Blok. However, I have always been interested in Julian the Apostate, and I re

Jedino mi je žao što mi nije bilo vreme za ovu knjigu i predugo sam je čitala.
Međutim, u svakom slučaju se izdvaja od mora trenutno dostupnih savremenih knjiga o istorijskim ličnostima iz raznih razdoblja pre svega jer ne insistira na izvorima, ubacivanju pošto-poto nevažnih detalja, reči na origin

This is a sensitive and profound book that is deeply sympathetic the polytheists of the 4th Century Roman Empire as their world is taken over by a mystery religion that is paradoxical in nature.

Способ изложения истории у Мережковского примечателен стремлением отталкиваться при повествовании от деталей. Только обстоятельство конкретной вещи имеет значение, тогда как весь остальной текст служит мостиком к следующему обстоятельству. Дмитрий словно рассматривает картины и делится увиденным, на