The emperor Julian was the nephew of Constantine, who made Christianity the state religion of Rome. Julian, however, had converted to paganism and when he gained power in 361 he ordered the temples re
Over four days at the beginning of September AD 9, half of Rome's Western army was ambushed in a German forest and annihilated. Three legions, three cavalry units and six auxiliary regiments—so
Le Calvaire is a thinly veiled autobiographical novel, which recounts the tortured and traumatic coming of age of the narrator Jean Mintie. It paints a nightmarish picture of late nineteenth century F
