Julian's brief reign (360-363 AD) had a profound impact on his contemporaries, as he worked fervently for a pagan restoration in the Roman Empire, which was rapidly becoming Christian.
Julian's Gods focuses on the cultural mentality of the last pagan Emperor' by examining a wide variety of his own writings. The surviving speeches and treatises, satires and letters offer a rare insight into the personal attitudes and motivations of a remarkable Emperor. They show Julian as a highly educated man, an avid student of Greek philosophy, and a talented author in his own right.
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The Sadistic Arts is Rowland Smith's second, (and first official) published book. Based around the character Joshua Carter and his experience in The School of Golden Arts. Joshua Carter wakes up to suddenly find himself trapped amongst other teenagers with no memory of his past at an academy of arts run by an eerily chipper and robotic principal. Surveillance cameras are everywhere, a curfew is in place, and the list of rules is ever expanding. All they have to do is to continue expressing their creativity through completing various art projects, or face expulsion Can Joshua withstand the...