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  • The Emperor Julian

    by Gerald Rendall ...
    Julian, also known as Julian the Apostate, was Roman Emperorfrom 361 to 363, as well as a notable philosopher and author in Greek. He was a man of unusually complex character: he was "the military commander, the theosophist, the social reformer, and the man of letters". Julian was the last non-Christian ruler of the Roman Empire, and he believed that it was necessary to restore the Empire's ... Read more

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  • The Emperor Julian, Paganism and Christianity

    by Gerald Rendall ...
    George Rendall's The Emperor Julian, Paganism and Christianity is a fascinating biography of one of Rome's most infamous emperors. ... Read more

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    The Philosopher-Reformer of the First Century A.D.

    by G. R. S. Mead ...
    Apollonius of Tyana ( c. 15–100 CE) was a Greek Neopythagorean philosopher from the town of Tyana in the Roman province of Cappadocia in Asia Minor. Being a 1st-century orator and philosopher around the time of Christ, he was compared with Jesus of Nazareth by Christians in the 4th century and by various popular writers in modern times. Apollonius was born into a respected and wealthy Greek family ... Read more

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  • Good Sense

    by Baron d' Paul Henri Thiry Holbach ...
    When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths, or to reject absurdities, and palpable contradictions. We have an example of this in Theology, a system revered in all countries by a great number of men; an object regarded by them as most important, and indispensable to happiness. An ... Read more

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  • Five Stages Of Greek Religion

    by Gilbert Murray ...
    Five Stages Of Greek Religionby Gilbert MurrayGilbert Murray's book "The Five Stages of Greek Religion" is t he outgrowth of a lecture series given before the First World War. Murray traces the growth and development of Greek religion from its beginnings in prehistorical animism to the full flowering of the major schools of philosophy, and thence to their extinction. Murray explores the irrational ... Read more

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  • History of Civilization in the Fifth Century

    by Frederic Ozanam ...
    I purpose to write the literary history of the Middle Age, from the fifth to the end of the thirteenth century, the time of Dante, before whom I pause as the worthiest representative of that great epoch. But in the history of literature my principal study will be the civilization of which it is the flower, and in that civilization I shall glance especially at the handiwork of Christianity. The ... Read more

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  • The Complete Works of Julian the Apostate. Illustrated

    Orations, Letters to Themistius, To the Senate and People of Athens, To a Priest, The Caesars and others

    by Julian the Apostate ...
    Translated by Wilmer C. Wright ...
    Julian was Roman emperor from 361 to 363, as well as a notable philosopher and author. His promotion of Neoplatonic Hellenism in its place, caused him to be remembered as Julian the Apostate in Christian tradition.Julian wrote several works in Greek, some of which have come down to us.One of the most important of his lost works is his Against the Galileans, intended to refute the Christian ... Read more

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  • Roman Society

    From Nero to Marcus Aurelius

    by Samuel Dill ...
    There must always be something arbitrary in the choice and isolation of a period of social history for special study. No period can, from one point of view, be broken off and isolated from the immemorial influences which have moulded it, from the succession of coming ages which it will help to fashion. And this is specially true of the history of a race at once so aggressive, yet so tenacious of ... Read more

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  • Apollonius of Tyana

    by George Robert Stowe Mead ...
    With the exception of Christ, no more interesting personage appears upon the stage of Western history in those early years. ... Read more

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  • The Arians of the Fourth Century

    Their Doctrine, Temper, and Conduct, Chiefly as Exhibited in the Councils of the Church Between A.D. 325 & A.D. 381

    by John Henry Newman ...
    The following work was written in the early part of last year, for Messrs. Rivington’s “Theological Library;” but as it seemed, on its completion, little fitted for the objects with which that publication has been undertaken, it makes its appearance in an independent form. Some apology is due to the reader for the length of the introductory chapter, but it was intended as the opening of a more ... Read more

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  • Sexual Life In Ancient Rome

    by Otto Kiefer ...
    First published in 2001. The psychological basis of the Roman Empire was a ruthless, frequently sadistic 'will to power'. This impulse is highly manifest in Ancient Roman attitudes towards sex. After describing women’s position in Roman society, Keifer skilfully surveys the crypto-sexual satisfaction derived by Romans from a range of activities. ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of History (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Complete Edition (Vol. 1&2)

    by Friedrich von Schlegel, Romy Jasperwell ...
    In The Philosophy of History, Friedrich von Schlegel presents world history as an intelligible, spiritual drama rather than a mere succession of political events. Moving across antiquity, biblical tradition, Asian civilizations, Christianity, and modern Europe, he interprets cultures through religion, language, myth, and moral formation. Its style is expansive, aphoristic, and synthetic, ... Read more

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