The Death of the Gods: A Novel of Julian the Apostate
Dmitry Merezhkovsky
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Julian the Apostate takes the Roman purple and tries to give the old gods back their world, in the opening volume of Merezhkovsky's trilogy on Christ and Antichrist. Merezhkovsky was nominated for the Nobel nine times and died in Paris exile; his argument — that the flesh and the spirit are two truths at war and neither can win — begins here, in an emperor who loses. Fifty-six plates of Roman ruins, campagna light and antique scenes, among them works by Munch and Hayez, run through the book like the empire Julian could not hold.
Julian the Apostate takes the Roman purple and tries to give the old gods back their world, in the opening volume of Merezhkovsky's trilogy on Christ and Antichrist. Merezhkovsky was nominated for the Nobel nine times and died in Paris exile; his argument — that the flesh and the spirit are two t...
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Dmitry Merezhkovsky was a Russian novelist, poet and religious philosopher, a founder of Russian Symbolism, nominated for the Nobel Prize nine times. His trilogy Christ and Antichrist set Julian the Apostate, Leonardo and Peter the Great against one another as figures in a single argument about faith. He fled the Bolsheviks in 1919 and died in Paris, having compromised himself by courting the fascist powers against them.
Dmitry Merezhkovsky was a Russian novelist, poet and religious philosopher, a founder of Russian Symbolism, nominated for the Nobel Prize nine times. His trilogy Christ and Antichrist set Julian the Apostate, Leonardo and Peter the Great against one another as figures in a single argument about f...
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