11-06-2011, 07:54 PM
Quote:That book has created the common misconception that Julian was killed by christians; something the evidence simply doesn't support!
Frankly, there was no evidence then, there is none now, just that the javelin that killed him was Roman, and that noone on the Persian side admitted to killed him.
Ford's book is peculiar. The protagonist, Julian's doctor is a strange choice, because he looks with disfavour on Julian all through the book. Strange. Also there are mistakes everywhere. eg. Dura Europus, a ruined city, he mistakes for a city recently abandoned by Romans fleeing the immediate war.
Personally,I've written a novel about the Persian expedition, about a boy who joins up and experiences the whole thing. I won't give the plot away, though ... it includes much of the action in Ammianus, but looks at it all from the level of a young miles in a minor legion (the First Isaurian). Still trying to get an agent to represent it, though. Waiting to hear at the moment ....
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Paul Elliott
Legions in Crisis
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/17815...d_i=468294
Charting the Third Century military crisis - with a focus on the change in weapons and tactics.
Legions in Crisis
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/17815...d_i=468294
Charting the Third Century military crisis - with a focus on the change in weapons and tactics.
