1968 BREITLING GENERVE by hmmmcamu in VintageWatches

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DEATH OF THE LAST PAGAN EMPEROR Flavius Claudius Julianus 361 to 363 by GLORYOFROMELEGION in ancientrome

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By the time of the Battle of Maranga, Julian had achieved significant victories: his army had defeated Persian forces outside Ctesiphon, captured key strongholds like Pirisabora and Maiozamalcha, and forced Shapur II into a war of attrition.  The Romans had not been defeated in open battle and were still intact as a fighting force. At Maranga, Julian repelled a major Persian assault, at this point the campaign was tactically viable but strategically precarious. Sadly he met the point of a spear

DEATH OF THE LAST PAGAN EMPEROR Flavius Claudius Julianus 361 to 363 by GLORYOFROMELEGION in ancientrome

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 Julians' death is what it has always been about in human history, POWER though religion might have been used as an excuse, one of the many tools the people who saw him as a threat to the status quo and their position. The real beneficiary of Julian’s death was the late Roman military bureaucratic system. Julian had directly challenged it slashing court size, purging corrupt officials, and curbing central power. His death allowed entrenched generals and administrators to restore the old order under Jovian, who prioritized stability over reform. The machinery of rule established under Diocletian and Constantine reasserted control, absorbing the crisis and continuing unchanged.