Book Reviews
Imperial Tales
The Last Pagan: Julian the Apostate and the Death of the Ancient World by Adrian Murdoch
Sutton, 2005
(260 pages, $29.95, hardcover)
The Last Roman: Romulus Augustulus and the Decline of the West by Adrian Murdoch
Sutton, 2006
(190 pages, $29.95, hardcover)
reviewed by Mike Aquilina
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