Callidior ceteris persecutor: The Emperor Julian and his Place in Christian Historiography
By Moysés Marcos
On 26 June A.D. 363, the Emperor Julian succumbed to a battle wound and died in Persia with considerable consequences for Christianity in the Roman Empire. For Christians, Julian’s death provided the opportunity not only for the return of a line of Christian emperors, but also for the occasion, much sooner than they might have originally anticipated, to render this pagan emperor and his acts in relation to the church for posterity.