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Jeremy Swist on the Emperor Julian, Part I: the Political Background and Political Project of the Emperor

Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

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Julian's Metaphysics

The Emperor is kind of like the vicar of Christ on Earth, reigning over the world. Julian does this right in a non-Christian way. He sees them as not just honorary Greeks, but ethnically Greeks. And he says that Rome is a Greek city. Roman culture is from beginning to end Hellenic.

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