Julian Romance
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The Julian Romance is fictionalized prose account of the reign of the Roman emperor Julian the Apostate. It was written sometime between Julian's death in 363 and the copying of the oldest known manuscript in the sixth century. It does not survive complete—parts of the opening section are missing. It was probably written in Edessa in Syriac, the language of all surviving copies. An Arabic adaptation had been made by the tenth century.
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Julian Romance
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From top to bottom: Julian, Shapur and Jovian. The conflicts of these three form the frame narrative of the Romance.
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The portrait of Shapur II on the obverse of a silver drachm, struck circa 309–320.jpg
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The Julian Romance is fictionalized prose account of the reign of the Roman emperor Julian the Apostate. It was written sometime between Julian's death in 363 and the copying of the oldest known manuscript in the sixth century. It does not survive complete—parts of the opening section are missing. It was probably written in Edessa in Syriac, the language of all surviving copies. An Arabic adaptation had been made by the tenth century. The Romance is written from a Christian perspective. It is divided into three parts. The first describes the accession of Julian and his persecution of Christians. The second describes Julian's conflict with Eusebius of Rome. The third and longest part, written in the form of a letter, describes Julian's Persian expedition, his downfall and the accession of the Christian emperor Jovian. There exists a short Syriac text known as the "second Romance". Scholars are divided over whether it is a separate text in the same tradition or a missing part of the "first Romance".
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