McCullough explains that, while it is certainly known Sulla's first wife was a Julia, it is not known to which branch of the Julii she belonged, but she was certainly a relation of Marius's better-known Julian wife, hence the decision to assign her the role in the novel of a younger sister.

Lastly, though certainly not least, is a film project, for which Julian is working with director John Cameron Mitchell, known for his film Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

After Constantius ' death in 361, his successor Julian the Apostate, a devotee of Rome's pagan gods, declared that he would no longer attempt to favor one church faction over another, and allowed all exiled bishops to return ; this had the objective of further increasing dissension among Christians.

Like many ancient historians, Ammianus had a strong political and religious agenda to pursue, however, and he contrasted Constantius II with Julian to the former's constant disadvantage ; like all ancient writers he was skilled in rhetoric, and this shows in his work.

Six weeks before the German invasion of Poland, Heschel left Warsaw for London with the help of Julian Morgenstern, president of Hebrew Union College, who had been working to obtain visas for Jewish scholars in Europe.

The attempted coup d ' etat by Silius and Messalina had probably made Claudius realize the weakness of his position as a member of the Claudian but not the Julian family.

In the meantime, Julian had won some victories against the Alemanni tribe, who had once again invaded Roman Gaul.

Apparently, realising his death was near, Constantius had himself baptised by Euzoius, the Semi-Arian bishop of Antioch, and then declared that Julian was his rightful successor.

In 2012 relations came under strain when Julian Assange, founder of the Wikileaks website, entered the Ecuadorian embassy in London and sought asylum ; Assange had recently lost a legal case against his extradition to Sweden on charges of sexual assault and rape, but when within the embassy he was on diplomatic territory and beyond the reach of the British police.

His first published compositions, a book of Masses, had made so favorable an impression with Pope Julius III ( previously the Bishop of Palestrina ) that he appointed Palestrina musical director of the Julian Chapel.

By this time Emperor Julian had publicly declared himself in opposition to Christianity.

Alaric's brother-in-law, Athaulf, appears to have had Hun mercenaries in his employ south of the Julian Alps in 409.

James Madison, Jr. was born at Belle Grove Plantation near Port Conway, Virginia on March 16, 1751, ( March 5, 1751, Old Style, Julian calendar ), where his mother had returned to her parents ' home to give birth.

Caligula had both Julian and Claudian ancestry, making him the first actual " Julio-Claudian " emperor.

The year of his graduation, he married Sheila Matthew, and they later had two sons and one daughter ( Tony, Carol, and Julian ).

( Looking back on his life in 362, Julian wrote, in his thirty-first year, that he had spent twenty years in the way of Christianity and twelve in the true way, i. e., the way of Helios.

In the following years Julian learned how to lead and then run an army, through a series of campaigns against the Germanic tribes that had settled on both sides of the Rhine.

Although Julian at first attempted to expedite the order, it provoked an insurrection by troops of the Petulantes, who had no desire to leave Gaul.

( Julian claimed that Vadomarius had been in league with Constantius encouraging him to raid the borders of Raetia.

It had also been used in the past as a staging place for amassing troops, a purpose which Julian intended to follow.

By mid-May, the army had reached the vicinity of the heavily fortified Persian capital, Ctesiphon, where Julian partially unloaded some of the fleet and had his troops ferried across the Tigris by night.

Julian not wanting to give up what he had gained and probably still hoping for the arrival of the column under Procopius and Sebastianus, set off east into the Persian interior, ordering the destruction of the fleet.

According to a tradition, Saint Basil ( an old school-mate of Julian ) had been imprisoned at the start of Julian's Sassanid campaign.

Julian Lennon has had an inconsistent career as a musical artist.

However, by the time he reached Mopsuestia in Cilicia, it was clear that he was fatally ill and would not survive to face Julian.

Julian Ward Jones Jr. in his article “ The So-Called Silvestris Commentary on the Aeneid and Two Other Interpretation ” attempts to clear up the issue of authorship in the Aeneid commentary by interpreting two distinct positions, the first by E. R.

Although Julian faced many difficulties, some external and many self-inflicted, it seems clear that these difficulties, though serious, were not insurmountable.

As it becomes clear that the sect is trying to kill Gracia, a child intended to become the next Innovator ( A Shining Series figure equatable to a god ), Julian takes on the task of protecting him and helping him realize his destiny.

Some sources state that the Julian calendar was designed by Aristarchus of Samos ; it is not clear where this originates, although a reform of the Egyptian calendar was decreed by Ptolemy III Euergetes in 238 BC, but never implemented.

However, in the Beatles Anthology series in 1996, the three surviving Beatles confirmed that there was never an idea of having Julian sit in for his father as part of a Beatles reunion, with McCartney saying " why would we want to subject him to all of this?

Attracted by the idea of studying art in Europe, he enrolled at the Académie Julian in Paris in 1894.

However, this reform was opposed by the Egyptian priests, and the idea was not adopted until 25 BC, when the Roman Emperor Augustus formally reformed the calendar of Egypt, keeping it forever synchronized with the newly introduced Julian calendar.

Anton de Bary invented the concept of symbiosis ; several Russian biologists promoted the idea ; Edwin Wilson mentioned it in his text The Cell ; as did Ivan Emmanuel Wallin in his Symbionticism and the origin of species ; and there was a brief mention by Julian Huxley in 1930 ; all in vain because sufficient evidence was lacking.

I used to show dad everything I'd built or painted at school, and this one sparked off the idea ..." Lucy Vodden née O ' Donnell, in a BBC radio interview in 2007, said, " I remember Julian and I both doing pictures on a double-sided easel, throwing paint at each other, much to the horror of the classroom attendant ... Julian had painted a picture and on that particular day his father turned up with the chauffeur to pick him up from school.

McCartney said, " I started with the idea ' Hey Jules ,' which was Julian, don't make it bad, take a sad song and make it better.

In 2005, advertising executive Julian Douglas shared an idea of his with her about launching a Tokyo-esque private karaoke bar in London.

Schrader re-visited many of the themes of American Gigolo in his 2007 film, The Walker, and says the idea for that film came about while wondering what would have become of the Julian Kaye character.

The idea to establish such a connection between them first came about at the Parliament of the World's Religions in 1993, when Julian von Duerbeck and Wayne Teasdale asked the Monastic Interreligious Dialogue ( MID ) to host an interfaith dialogue between Buddhists and Catholics ; MID accepted, and that morning they held a meeting at the Parliament.

The most serious early challenge to biblical Adamism came from the Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate who, upon his rejection of Christianity and his conversion to Theurgy, a late form of Neoplatonism, accepted the idea that many pairs of original people had been created, a belief termed Coadamism or multiple-adamism ( see polygenism ).

Notable composers building on the spectral idea today include Julian Anderson, Ana-Maria Avram, Joshua Fineberg, Jonathan Harvey, Fabien Lévy, Magnus Lindberg, and Kaija Saariaho.

This agreement proved to be short-lived: first Zinaida made a stab at translating Byron's Manfred which proved to be unsuccessful, then Merezhkovsky formed the idea of writing his novel Julian the Apostate.

The term was coined by psychologist Julian Jaynes, who presented the idea in his 1976 book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, wherein he made the case that a bicameral mentality was the normal and ubiquitous state of the human mind as recently as 3000 years ago.

Langford excited by his song idea phoned his writing partner Julian Napolitano.