Julian the Apostate, Part 2: Author and Thinker

[@alexabood2516]

Just read his The Caesars and found this line in it: “For some of these, when they might have remained quiet and not taken the field, kept making one war an excuse for the next, like quarrelsome people and their lawsuits; and so they perished in their campaigns”. How ironic

[@alanpennie8013]

And so poor Julian wrote his own epitaph.

[@nsjx]

Yes, something doesn't jive with this and the subsequent events, at least the conquest seems to perhaps have more complex of a background than what we may "know" from available source(s). I tend to feel it is very much a cautious course of thought to take what we have been given for ancient figures with a grain of salt. I wonder for example how much popularism might have been involved in the decision to mount a new campaign. perhaps this was an attempt to regain favour and trust in Antioch?

[@dconov]

Maybe commented in previous Julian video, but Gore Vidal's novel "Julian" is an interesting read of historical fiction.

[@Meganec3810]

Thanks for the recommendation!!

[@joshuaschmude7187]

I just mentioned this book in the comments for part 1 😂😂😂😂 It is a fantastic book.

[@JonBrownSherman]

Congratulations on 45k subscribers. Way more than 100 when this came out, apparently! Your channel is the best and thank you for your hard work!

[@احمدفریدونی-خ3ج]

Julian was the Roman emperor for a short time. If he had been emperor for more than ten years, he would have become an emperor even bigger than Constantine the Great. But Julian was not lucky and ruled only for a short .time

[@OkurkaBinLadin]

You cant plan large military campaign on "luck", what was he thinking?

[@johnmurdoch3083]

Well if he had the backing of the military. If that ended all his virtues would be for naught.

[@paprskomet]

@@johnmurdoch3083 He had backing of military-that was not a problem.

[@paprskomet]

@@OkurkaBinLadin He did not planned it on luck.His campaign was very well prepared which is a fact even those of Christian authors which hated him acknowledge.Mystakes took place while on that campaign.

[@johnmurdoch3083]

@@paprskomet in 363 maybe ....but how long would that last

[@mlkporph6969]

Julian the Restorer

[@Apicalgrowth]

Thank you for this video. What a crucial point in history. The Lion of Judah has conquered!

[@algaedrone1833]

Audio seems to be WAY too low

[@ThersitestheHistorian]

I made this video about a week before I discovered how to adjust the recording volume on my mic.

[@algaedrone1833]

Ah, okay. Sorry, keep up the good work! I'd love to see more videos about Julian, as well. There's so much ground to cover.

[@ThersitestheHistorian]

We'll see. I can imagine revisiting Julian in the future even though I don't have any immediate plans to do so.

[@AntonioBrandao]

Just remaster the audio (apply a compressor for example) and re-upload!

[@foxycinnamon7307]

@@AntonioBrandao I agree. It's almost painful to try & follow.

[@markcannon8522]

Ave julian the restorer

[@kanyekubrick5391]

awesome!

[@Gingy578]

Somehow you didn't mention the part of Julian allowing the Jews to reassemble the Senhadrin and even to start to build the third temple.

[@lawrence9506]

There probably weren’t many rich kids wanting to live like Cynics.

[@ThersitestheHistorian]

Probably not, but all it takes is for one attractive young aristocratic girl going Cynic to set the city's elite on edge about these degenerates on the streets corrupting the youth.

[@ursulapainter5787]

Please fix audio---it's too soft!

[@jerseymusicman3332]

Very informative. Very good. You could see why I got confused... really good stuff.

[@jerseymusicman3332]

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[@jerseymusicman3332]

I like Julian. I’d prolly have a beer with him.

[@AntonioBrandao]

Audio is too low.

[@causantinthescot]

*brain aneurysm intensifies

[@sophiaangelini4368]

Long live Thersites the Historian

[@TheTheurgist]

PRONUNCED El ee ous Yam blic us

[@homoe7976]

Suppose he wanted too much in too short a time frame especially given his early death.

[@Peekaboo-Kitty]

Your audio is very low here.

[@alfredospautzgranemannjuni5864]

Need to find “cesars” by Julian. Can someone point me somewhere I can buy it?

[@ThersitestheHistorian]

It is included in one of the three Loeb volumes covering Julian's surviving works. Outside of that, I'm not sure where it has been translated and printed.

[@alexabood2516]

Here is a translation from the early 1900’s that I read online and thought did well enough: www.attalus.org/translate/caesars.html

[@foxycinnamon7307]

There's a lot of his works on Amazon. Going to look at some indie sites first.

[@juliantherebel9658]

I made a little dark age video about me check it out 😉