The problem of specialists degree in Classics is that they allow themselves to issue subsoil of their chair at the Sorbonne judgments which do not fall within their pulpit does one historian saw a prick or language stylistically? No. The Faculty of Arts and aggregated pride themselves on history, and in this case, they deserve rotten tomatoes and a passage through the yoke. What right does he judge translator apostasy of the Emperor Julian? His personality, his actions? We praise him for having made the original transcript of the Greek Julien's hand (and yes, it saw the legs, a Roman emperor Hellenizing, apostate, relapsed, anti-Christian (but so little blood on his hands under Constant those of his uncle, Christian emperor who made murder his parents in front of Julien and his older brother, who was assassinated later that same older brother and attempting to murder Julian himself, wonder Julien has changed religion . !!!) with the translation that does not seek to hide the sharp sensitivity and contradictions of this misunderstood Also emperor must have read the excellent biography of Lucien Jerphagnon, historian of philosophy, Greek scholar and brilliant author "Julien the Apostate, "and know the Lower Empire Introduction of the Classics teacher is an ordeal for the historian moral judgments on Julien's anti-Christianity without knowing the causes or effects;.. the anti repression -païenne Constant, 1 Theodosius and Justinian especially the first did not sickened. He did not read the historians of Rome John Ramsay Macmullen SCHEID or to overwhelm the first fire Julien the Apostate the rubble of his calumnies and contempt. Buy it, read it to his translation of the letters of the emperor misunderstood, lonely, shy, modest (due! All his dear Christian family wanted to kill him as soon diapers ... and then!). Splendid and timeless letters on friendship, the meaning of life, the vanity of power, detestation of hypocrise, refusal bias; that make the supreme power without considering whether such imperial decree is really good and just for the greatest number? It is also a statesman who is to read and meditate. It makes me hot grooves with Confucius I have not read and that I will not read because I judge it inappropriate for my company and my civilization; if he had written poems I'd read. But left to right many people of power, or more local elected every citizen conscious of the Public Sphere and Living-Together, would do well to carefully read the Letters of Julian. They are stripped of their safety for themselves, their permanent complacency towards themselves, their actions and their intentions. A lesson in stoicism experienced no harm done to any of us. If the first Julien was not as good philosopher Marcus Aurelius, whatever! Its antiquated dream failed, but his letters are always vibrant humanity in charitable quest for humanity. You would think that they were written yesterday.
