Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

Breviarium Vindobonense
(Breviarum Vindobonense, Breviarum of Vienna)
Chronica urbis Romae
(Chronica urbis Romae, Chronicle of the city of Rome)
Origo gentis Romanorum
(Origo gentis Romanorum, Origins of the people of the Romans)
Origo gentis Romanorum ex quo primum in Italia regnare coeperunt
(Origo gentis Romanorum ex quo primum in Italia regnare coeperunt, Origins of the people of the Romans from the moment when they started to rule in Italy)

Author:

Anonymous (Breviarium Vindobonense)

Period covered:

Faunus-Licinius

Language:

Latin

State of Preservation:

Full

Genre:

Remarks:

The work is a series of brief notices on Roman rulers, included in the same compilation that also contained Valentinus' Calender of 354.

It probably shares a source with Eutropius, Jerome, the Consularia constantinopolitana, and Isidore of Seville, Etymologies, and also shows up shared information with the first part of Eusebius' chronicle.

Edition - Translation:

R. Burgess (2014) Roman imperial chronology and early-fourth-century historiography: The regnal durations of the so-called "Chronica Urbis Romae" of the "Chronograph of 354" (Historia Einzelschriften, 234). Stuttgart.
T. Mommsen (1892) Chronica minora saec. IV.V.VI.VII. Volume One (Monumenta Germaniae historica: Auctores antiquissimi, 9). Berlin.
M.A. Nickbakht, M. Stein (2017) Origo gentis Romanorum. Polemius Silvius. Narratio de imperatoribus domus Valentinianae et theodosianae (Kleine und fragmentarische Historiker der Spätantike, B5). Paderborn.

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Bibliography:

G. Pfund (2021) Von Picus bis Licinius. Historischer Kommentar zu den Chronica urbis Romae im Chronographen von 354. Stuttgart.
R. Scharf (1996) 'Zu einiger Daten der Kaiser Libius Severus und Maiorian'. Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 139: 180-188.
P.L. Schmidt (1989) '§531.5 Origo gentis Romanorum'. In: Restauration und Erneuerung: Die lateinische Literatur von 284 bis 374 n. Chr., ed. R. Herzog (Handbuch der lateinischen Literatur der Antike, 8.5). Munich: 183.