Julian the Apostate: Rome's Last Pagan Emperor - History Matters (Short Animated Documentary)

Next week's episodes are all 19th century wars. Because I want to.


Wednesday is the Franco-Prussian War and Sunday is the Crimean War.

Last real roman emperor

The brevity of this video makes it comes off as some sort of hit piece against Julian. He was actually a very good emperor.

Julian came so close...then forgot his armor. Roman facepalm ensues.

Fun fact: when St.Basil prayed to God that Julian didn’t return, an icon of Saint Mercurius disappeared then reappeared with the tip of his spear bloodied, now most Christian denominations believe St.Mercurius was the one who killed him

sad, I'm sad

Julian couldn't take Ctesiphon because the rest of his army under another general didn't come sid him like they were supposed to....

One of the most overrated Roman Emperor.

Lies

And every drill sergeant ever screamed “don’t be a cowboy” when they heard that

Eastern Rome Emperor

You didn't even mention the Julian calendar!

Julian should have kept his pagan beliefs secret.

He had so much promise as was just another tragedy along with Aurelian and Majorian. The forces split never arrived for whatever reason and the government was filled with Christians at this point who hated him and the aristocracy was more and more Christian and they wanted him out. Had he survived and returned triumphant and depending on how much damage he did to the Persians and let's say his reign last 20 years....the way Europe looks religiously might look very different. Not because of paganism per se but the schism growing with in Christianity and its influence on the government. Julian was famous for what amounted to be the first attempts at separation of church and state. Quoted as saying no religion should take favor in administration over another. So had he lived a long life ruling this way and whoever his successor might have been might have continued the policy of keeping religious matters out of governance. His successors went the complete opposite direction and this would cement the foundation of leaders Christian God given rights and crusades and blah blah that would dominate until the 1700's. Julian was trying to undo the damage done by Constantine the Great.

Julian the emperor is dead, and Graccus a common centurion is not, because graccus had armor and a big fucking sword.

I like the holes in Christ's hands.

What the hell happened to the Rome of the Punic Wars?

Julian the apostate wouldn't have brought Rome into a golden age, if anything he would've damaged the religious stability of the Empire and it would've collapsed sooner.

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The last true one

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"No wild beasts are such dangerous enemies to man as christians are to one another" - Julian.

After converting they broke. Rome didn't follow Romanism anymore. They fell

Julian the Based. Rome is Pagan, anything else is just pretenders.

My uncle Bill had a problem with his apostate. He had to take these big pills and drink lots of water

Rome: You're either with us or against us.
Persia: We're against you. in fact, we're gonna be a pain in your Roman rectums.

All roads lead to rome-said by barbarian

This was made before Spinning Three Plates started patronising this channel.

That's why you should buy armor before rushing B

Love the way you and hes dead they fall over lol

Unfortunately for him, Pandora had already opened the box and there was no stopping what had come out of it.

its amazing how the romans kept failing at invading persia for hundreds of years and Alexander the Great did it in a couple of years

It's a genuine shame that he died before being able to make any huge changes, Christianity, and all Abrahamic religions, have been nothing but a negative influence on the world and a cancer

Rest in glory, Emperor, if only you had pushed those Christians out, Rome would've survived

He also tried to rebuild the Jewish temple to own the Christians but that didn't work out

Pagan holidays have still been passed down to christianity (christmas, easter etc.) 25 December is a popular holiday in paganism.
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King Julian

more like Julian the Prostate lmao gotem

He was also the last man proclaimed Pharoh by the priests of Amun, though he never formally accepted the title.

very interesting, begs me to wonder what would have happened had he has a longer rule, what europe might have looked like if christianity was vanquished early on

It's a shame that he didn't live long enough to undermine the Christians and their teaching the world would have been a much better place

I kinda doubt he could've kept Rome from turning Christian even if he had a much longer reign, but I don't blame him for trying. (I mean, it's not like the Christians were any more tolerant of the pagans when they ruled. Nobody really believed in freedom of religion back then - at least not the way we do now.)

Julian is super underrated. I blame Christian historians being salty that he tried to go back to the classic Roman pantheon. Not to say he didn’t make any mistakes. He should have been a little less ambitious with his Persian conquests.

Gore Vidal's novel "Julian" is as well researched as possible and gives witty insights and a certain conjecture into the life , reign and untimely death of this fascinating man .

Gore Vidal wrote a novel about Julian.

Truly one of the most overrated men to ever wear the diadem. Like most drastically overrated historical figures, he can be awkwardly shoved into a modern controversy as an avatar for one side, and so derives fame and praise from people who, having already pretended him into being like them, have no qualms about further pretending him into new heights of competence and morality. Of course, the same also works in reverse, though thankfully Gibbon's views of Constantine have been a harder sell, given just how well the man's reputation speaks for itself. There's a reason why every praise of Julian is about his potential, he simply didn't do anything worthy of much praise.

So he promised to make Rome great again?