BIBLIOGRAPHY.--The works of Julian, of which there are complete
editions by E. Spanheim (Leipzig, 1696) and F. C. Hertlein (Teubner
series, 1875-1876), consist of the following: (1) _Letters_, of which
more than eighty have been preserved under his name, although the
genuineness of several has been disputed. For his views on religious
toleration and his attitude towards Christians and Jews the most
important are 25-27, 51, 52, and the fragment in Hertlein, i. 371. The
letter of Gallus to Julian, warning him against reverting to
heathenism, is probably a Christian forgery. Six new letters were
discovered in 1884 by A. Papadopulos Kerameus in a monastery on the
island of Chalcis near Constantinople (see _Rheinisches Museum_,
xlii., 1887). Separate edition of the letters by L. H. Heyler (1828);
see also J. Bidez and F. Cumont, "Recherches sur la tradition MS. des
lettres de l'empereur Julian" in _Mémoires couronnés ... publiés par
l'Acad. royale de Belgique_, lvii. (1898) and F. Cumont, _Sur
l'authenticité de quelques lettres de Julien_ (1889). (2) _Orations_,
eight in number--two panegyrics on Constantius, one on the empress
Eusebia, two theosophical declamations on King Helios and the Mother
of the Gods, two essays on true and false cynicism, and a consolatory
address to himself on the departure of his friend Salustius to the
East. (3) _Caesares or Symposium_, a satirical composition after the
manner of Seneca's _Apocolocyntosis_, in which the deified Caesars
appear in succession at a banquet given in Olympus, to be censured for
their vices and crimes by old Silenus. (4) _Misopogon_ (the
beard-hater), written at Antioch, a satire on the licentiousness of
its inhabitants; while at the same time his own person and manner of
life are treated in a whimsical spirit. It also contains a charming
description of Lutetia (Paris). It owes its name to the ridicule
heaped upon his beard by the Antiocheans, who were in the habit of
shaving. (5) Five epigrams, two of which (_Anth. Pal._, ix. 365, 368)
are of some interest. (6) [Greek: Karà Christianôn] (_Adversus
Christianos_) in three books, an attack on Christianity written during
the Persian campaign, is lost. Theodosius II. ordered all copies of it
to be destroyed, and our knowledge of its contents is derived almost
entirely from the _Contra Julianum_ of Cyril, bishop of Alexandria,
written sixty years later (see _Juliani librorum contra Christianos
quae supersunt_, ed. C. J. Neumann 1880). _English Translations_:
Select works by J. Duncombe (1784) containing all except the first
seven orations (viii. and the fable from vii. are included): the
theosophical addresses to King Helios and the Mother of the Gods by
Thomas Taylor (1793) and C. W. King in Bohn's _Classical Library_
(1888); the public letters, by E. J. Chinnock (1901).
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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