From chronicling the defiance of the last pagan emperor, Julian, to detailing Christian mobs’ destruction of sacred sites across the empire, the book stands as both a tribute to the vanquished polytheistic religions and a reflection on how Christian ideas continue to shape modern ideologies, including Islam, communism, secularism, revolutionary thought, and social justice.
A poignant homage to fallen faiths and a stark warning for Asia’s last surviving polytheistic traditions, this is a tale of the most influential and irreversible transformation in world history.