Declared as Emperor by his soldiers, Julian prepares to go to war against his cousin, Constantius II. When events leave Julian as the sole ruler of Rome, he begins the Herculean task of reinstating paganism as the religion of the empire.

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Bibliography:

Bowersock, G.W. Julian the Apostate. Harvard University Press, 1997. 

Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 1-3, Everyman, 1993. 

Julianus, Flavius Claudius. The Works of Emperor Julian. Literary Liscencing LLC, 2011.

Marcellinus, Ammianus. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus. Benediction Classics, 2011. 

Murdoch, Adrian. The Last Pagan. Inner Traditions, 2008.

Cover Image: Statue of Emperor Julian, displayed at the Louvre Museum in Paris

Opening Theme: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op. 95, B. 178 by Antonín Dvořák

Closing Theme: "The Passage of Time" by Richard Beddow