Archaeologists and students in the Netherlands have unearthed a 1,800-year-old temporary Roman military fort in the ...

Sounds like it could be anywhere in Australia or New Zealand in January, doesn't it? This is also how the Roman emperor Julian spent his summers in the 4th century CE. Towards the end of 357 CE ...

Julian demurred initially and publicly, but by 361 he started to represent himself in this fashion and prepared for the inevitable civil war. Constantius died suddenly, however, before any combat took ...

The Roman Emperor Julian was apparently so taken aback by how civilization developed in the 1500 years following his death in 363 CE that he felt compelled to express himself from beyond the ...

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In 363, Roman Emperor Julian was killed during a retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian was proclaimed Emperor by troops on the battlefield.

Around 46 BC, Roman emperor Julius Caesar proposed a solution: the Julian calendar. This new 12-month calendar would always consist of 365 days except every fourth year when an additional day was ...

Peter Heather, professor of medieval history at King’s College London, sees the triumph of Christianity as much more dubious. “Modern scholarship,” he writes in the introduction of Christendom: The ...

JULIAN by Gore Vidal. 503 pages. Little, Brown. $6.95.No odder figure ever guided the destinies of the Holy Roman Empire than the Emperor Julian Augustus (circa 331-363), known as Julian the ...