The Enmannsche Kaisergeschichte ('Enmann's History of the Emperors') is a modern term for a hypothetical Latin historical work, written in the 4th century, but now lost.
4-456: The German scholar Alexander Enmann made in 1884 a comparison of several late Roman historical works and found many similarities, which could not be explained by a direct literary relationship between the extant works ( Eine verlorene Geschichte der roemischen Kaiser und das Buch De viris illustribus urbis Romae ). Enmann postulated a theory of a lost historical work, which was the common source for authors including Aurelius Victor , Eutropius , and
8-480: The author of the Historia Augusta . The work is not mentioned by any late Roman historian, but Enmann's analysis is today largely accepted and modified. There are some scholars, especially Willem den Boer [ de ] , who question its existence, but the majority accept it. The Kaisergeschichte was a brief historical work. It had covered the time from emperor Augustus to 337 or 357. Besides
12-489: The period from Augustus to Constantius II . The work was published in 361. Under the emperor Julian (361-363), Victor served as governor of Pannonia Secunda ; in 389 he became praefectus urbi (urban prefect), senior imperial official in Rome. Four small historical works have been ascribed to him, although only his authorship of De Caesaribus is securely established: The four have generally been published together under
16-522: The three historians mentioned above, it was used by Festus , Jerome , and the anonymous Epitome de Caesaribus . This article about an Ancient Roman book or literary work is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Aurelius Victor Sextus Aurelius Victor (c. 320 – c. 390) was a historian and politician of the Roman Empire . Victor was the author of a short history of imperial Rome, entitled De Caesaribus and covering
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