The Last Pagan Quotes

“Out too was wine, symbol of Roman easy-living; in was beer, the drink of his troops. He even wrote a poem to it:”
― Adrian Murdoch, The Last Pagan: Julian the Apostate and the End of the Roman world

“Julian expected his priests to fulfil the same role that Constantine had assigned to Christians; pagan priests were expected to be agents of social change”
― Adrian Murdoch, The Last Pagan: Julian the Apostate and the End of the Roman world

“Bacchus, the son of Zeus I know, not you! He smells of nectar, you just smell of goats! Grape-less, the Celts pour barley down their throats,”
― Adrian Murdoch, The Last Pagan: Julian the Apostate and the End of the Roman world

“In a viciously funny passage, when asked to pick a god, Constantine runs first to Pleasure who leads him to Dissolution and finally to Jesus who offers to wash away his sins[11].”
― Adrian Murdoch, The Last Pagan: Julian the Apostate and the End of the Roman world