Adrian Murdoch on the death and significance of Julian the Apostate, in The California Literary Review. The Last Pagan is now out in paperback in both the UK and US.
Link below left to all his books to date.
From a statue in the Louvre [I’ll leave this because I like the image, with Sol in his eyes, but note corrections from Dorothy King and Adrian Murdoch below]
June 30, 2008 at 8:59 pm
… Julio ex-Iglesias.
July 1, 2008 at 11:24 am
I second Adrian being brilliant, and his book being fabulous.
But … the statue you use to illustrate the post was demoted to a priest of Serapis, and has been at the Cluny Baths in Paris not the Louvre for as long as I can remember (at least since 1990).
July 1, 2008 at 11:41 am
Totally agree about AM.
Ouch! Britannica online has it in the Louvre and as Julian, so it’s not only Wikipedia you can’t trust. Thank you.
July 2, 2008 at 5:36 am
It has been demoted to the priest of Serapis, but it is still in the Louvre … or rather also in the Louvre. The Louvre version is a copy of the one in the Cluny Baths.
July 2, 2008 at 7:43 am
I thought we might be talking about a copy. Thanks.