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<p>[QUOTE="bcuda, post: 3699966, member: 105389"]I am shocked and very happy that I won this Julian the apostate in auction.</p><p>This guy has a lot of history written about Him. Below is just a tiny bit that I found.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]991506[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Julian II. Æ Maiorina (9.11 g), AD 360-363.</b> Antioch, AD 361-363. D N FL CL IVLI-ANVS P F AVG, diademed, draped and cuirassed bust of Julian II right. <i>Reverse:</i> SECVRITAS REIPVB, bull standing right; above, two stars (branch)ANTA(branch). RIC 218; LRBC 2640.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]991505[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Julian</b> was a staunch and traditionalist pagan. in A.D. 361 Julian himself was elevated to the Roman throne, barely over thirty at the time. That very year he declared himself the <b>public enemy of Christianity</b>. As an interesting sidelight, Julian was so intense about his devotion to paganism that he adopted a radical sort of “pietism.” He wanted to prove that heathenism could inspire a dedication as acute as the teaching of Christ had done among Christians. He abandoned luxury, slept on the ground, allowed himself to go unclean and disheveled, and permitted his body to become host to a variety of vermin. In one of his letters he boasted of his long nails, shaggy head, and dirty hands! He became a bizarre spectacle.He tried to reintroduce the ancestral Roman religion as the state church, and began to persecute Christians once again. For this, he was <b>called</b> “<b>the Apostate</b>”, which is defined as a person who renounces a religion.</p><p><br /></p><p>In A.D. 363, Julian died in a battle against the Persians,during a disastrous retreat from the walls of <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Ctesiphon-ancient-city-Iraq" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Ctesiphon-ancient-city-Iraq" rel="nofollow">Ctesiphon</a>, below modern Baghdad, Julian was wounded by a spear thrown “no one knew whence,” which pierced his liver. He died the next night at age 31, having been <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/emperor-title" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/emperor-title" rel="nofollow">emperor</a> for 20 months.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Also this coin was minted in Antioch</b> . Here is some history on Julian with Antioch.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4"><b>Clash with the Antiochenes</b></font></p><p>After five months of dealings at the capital, Julian left Constantinople in May and moved to Antioch, arriving in mid-July and staying there for nine months before launching his fateful campaign against Persia in March 363. Antioch was a city favored by splendid temples along with a famous oracle of Apollo in nearby Daphne, which may have been one reason for his choosing to reside there. It had also been used in the past as a staging place for amassing troops, a purpose which Julian intended to follow.[46]</p><p><br /></p><p>His arrival on 18 July was well received by the Antiochenes, though it coincided with the celebration of the <i>Adonia</i>, a festival which marked the death of Adonis, so there was wailing and moaning in the streets-not a good omen for an arrival.[47][48]</p><p><br /></p><p>Julian soon discovered that wealthy merchants were causing food problems, apparently by hoarding food and selling it at high prices. He hoped that the curia would deal with the issue for the situation was headed for a famine. When the curia did nothing, he spoke to the city's leading citizens, trying to persuade them to take action. Thinking that they would do the job, he turned his attention to religious matters.</p><p><br /></p><p>He tried to resurrect the ancient oracular spring of Castalia at the temple of Apollo at Daphne. After being advised that the bones of 3rd-century bishop Babylas were suppressing the god, he made a public-relations mistake in ordering the removal of the bones from the vicinity of the temple. The result was a massive Christian procession. Shortly after that, when the temple was destroyed by fire, Julian suspected the Christians and ordered stricter investigations than usual. He also shut up the chief Christian church of the city, before the investigations proved that the fire was the result of an accident.</p><p><br /></p><p>When the curia still took no substantial action in regards to the food shortage, Julian intervened, fixing the prices for grain and importing more from Egypt. Then landholders refused to sell theirs, claiming that the harvest was so bad that they had to be compensated with fair prices. Julian accused them of price gouging and forced them to sell. Various parts of Libanius' orations may suggest that both sides were justified to some extent while Ammianus blames Julian for "a mere thirst for popularity".</p><p><br /></p><p>Julian's ascetic lifestyle was not popular either, since his subjects were accustomed to the idea of an all-powerful Emperor who placed himself well above them. Nor did he improve his dignity with his own participation in the ceremonial of bloody sacrifices. As David S. Potter says:</p><p><br /></p><p>They expected a man who was both removed from them by the awesome spectacle of imperial power, and would validate their interests and desires by sharing them from his Olympian height (...) He was supposed to be interested in what interested his people, and he was supposed to be dignified. He was not supposed to leap up and show his appreciation for a panegyric that it was delivered, as Julian had done on January 3, when Libanius was speaking, and ignore the chariot races.</p><p><br /></p><p>He then tried to address public criticism and mocking of him by issuing a satire ostensibly on himself, called Misopogon or "Beard Hater". There he blames the people of Antioch for preferring that their ruler have his virtues in the face rather than in the soul.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even Julian's intellectual friends and fellow pagans were of a divided mind about this habit of talking to his subjects on an equal footing: Ammianus Marcellinus saw in that only the foolish vanity of someone "excessively anxious for empty distinction", whose "desire for popularity often led him to converse with unworthy persons".</p><p><br /></p><p>On leaving Antioch he appointed Alexander of Heliopolis as governor, a violent and cruel man whom the Antiochene Libanius, a friend of the emperor, admits on first thought was a "dishonourable" appointment. Julian himself described the man as "undeserving" of the position, but appropriate "for the avaricious and rebellious people of Antioch".[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bcuda, post: 3699966, member: 105389"]I am shocked and very happy that I won this Julian the apostate in auction. This guy has a lot of history written about Him. Below is just a tiny bit that I found. [ATTACH=full]991506[/ATTACH] [B]Julian II. Æ Maiorina (9.11 g), AD 360-363.[/B] Antioch, AD 361-363. D N FL CL IVLI-ANVS P F AVG, diademed, draped and cuirassed bust of Julian II right. [I]Reverse:[/I] SECVRITAS REIPVB, bull standing right; above, two stars (branch)ANTA(branch). RIC 218; LRBC 2640. [ATTACH=full]991505[/ATTACH] [B]Julian[/B] was a staunch and traditionalist pagan. in A.D. 361 Julian himself was elevated to the Roman throne, barely over thirty at the time. That very year he declared himself the [B]public enemy of Christianity[/B]. As an interesting sidelight, Julian was so intense about his devotion to paganism that he adopted a radical sort of “pietism.” He wanted to prove that heathenism could inspire a dedication as acute as the teaching of Christ had done among Christians. He abandoned luxury, slept on the ground, allowed himself to go unclean and disheveled, and permitted his body to become host to a variety of vermin. In one of his letters he boasted of his long nails, shaggy head, and dirty hands! He became a bizarre spectacle.He tried to reintroduce the ancestral Roman religion as the state church, and began to persecute Christians once again. For this, he was [B]called[/B] “[B]the Apostate[/B]”, which is defined as a person who renounces a religion. In A.D. 363, Julian died in a battle against the Persians,during a disastrous retreat from the walls of [URL='https://www.britannica.com/place/Ctesiphon-ancient-city-Iraq']Ctesiphon[/URL], below modern Baghdad, Julian was wounded by a spear thrown “no one knew whence,” which pierced his liver. He died the next night at age 31, having been [URL='https://www.britannica.com/topic/emperor-title']emperor[/URL] for 20 months. [B]Also this coin was minted in Antioch[/B] . Here is some history on Julian with Antioch. [SIZE=4][B]Clash with the Antiochenes[/B][/SIZE] After five months of dealings at the capital, Julian left Constantinople in May and moved to Antioch, arriving in mid-July and staying there for nine months before launching his fateful campaign against Persia in March 363. Antioch was a city favored by splendid temples along with a famous oracle of Apollo in nearby Daphne, which may have been one reason for his choosing to reside there. It had also been used in the past as a staging place for amassing troops, a purpose which Julian intended to follow.[46] His arrival on 18 July was well received by the Antiochenes, though it coincided with the celebration of the [I]Adonia[/I], a festival which marked the death of Adonis, so there was wailing and moaning in the streets-not a good omen for an arrival.[47][48] Julian soon discovered that wealthy merchants were causing food problems, apparently by hoarding food and selling it at high prices. He hoped that the curia would deal with the issue for the situation was headed for a famine. When the curia did nothing, he spoke to the city's leading citizens, trying to persuade them to take action. Thinking that they would do the job, he turned his attention to religious matters. He tried to resurrect the ancient oracular spring of Castalia at the temple of Apollo at Daphne. After being advised that the bones of 3rd-century bishop Babylas were suppressing the god, he made a public-relations mistake in ordering the removal of the bones from the vicinity of the temple. The result was a massive Christian procession. Shortly after that, when the temple was destroyed by fire, Julian suspected the Christians and ordered stricter investigations than usual. He also shut up the chief Christian church of the city, before the investigations proved that the fire was the result of an accident. When the curia still took no substantial action in regards to the food shortage, Julian intervened, fixing the prices for grain and importing more from Egypt. Then landholders refused to sell theirs, claiming that the harvest was so bad that they had to be compensated with fair prices. Julian accused them of price gouging and forced them to sell. Various parts of Libanius' orations may suggest that both sides were justified to some extent while Ammianus blames Julian for "a mere thirst for popularity". Julian's ascetic lifestyle was not popular either, since his subjects were accustomed to the idea of an all-powerful Emperor who placed himself well above them. Nor did he improve his dignity with his own participation in the ceremonial of bloody sacrifices. As David S. Potter says: They expected a man who was both removed from them by the awesome spectacle of imperial power, and would validate their interests and desires by sharing them from his Olympian height (...) He was supposed to be interested in what interested his people, and he was supposed to be dignified. He was not supposed to leap up and show his appreciation for a panegyric that it was delivered, as Julian had done on January 3, when Libanius was speaking, and ignore the chariot races. He then tried to address public criticism and mocking of him by issuing a satire ostensibly on himself, called Misopogon or "Beard Hater". There he blames the people of Antioch for preferring that their ruler have his virtues in the face rather than in the soul. Even Julian's intellectual friends and fellow pagans were of a divided mind about this habit of talking to his subjects on an equal footing: Ammianus Marcellinus saw in that only the foolish vanity of someone "excessively anxious for empty distinction", whose "desire for popularity often led him to converse with unworthy persons". On leaving Antioch he appointed Alexander of Heliopolis as governor, a violent and cruel man whom the Antiochene Libanius, a friend of the emperor, admits on first thought was a "dishonourable" appointment. Julian himself described the man as "undeserving" of the position, but appropriate "for the avaricious and rebellious people of Antioch".[/QUOTE]
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