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Stewart Henry Perowne
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LOCATION: London, United Kingdom

BIOGRAPHY

Orientalist, historian, and lecturer. Author of The Life and Times of Herod the Great; The End of the Roman World; The Political Background of the New Testament; and others.

Primary Contributions (3)
Julian the Apostate, detail of a marble statue; in the Louvre, Paris.
Julian was a Roman emperor from ad 361 to 363, nephew of Constantine the Great, and a noted scholar and military leader who was proclaimed emperor by his troops. A persistent enemy of Christianity, he publicly announced his conversion to paganism in 361, thus acquiring the epithet “the Apostate.”…
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