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Jeremy Swist on Julian, Part II: The Emperor’s Religio-Philosophic Project

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

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The Ideal Philosopher: A Regular Guy

Julian sees Epicureanism and Christianity as having a lot in common. He also doesn't have a very sympathetic view to cynicism. Julian believed that Christianity was an attempt to secularize Greco-Roman culture. And he saw the Christians as essentially corrupting that by teaching classical literature.

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