Ciclurile monarhiei imperiale în Liber de Caesaribus – o abordare istoriografică
The cycles of the imperial monarchy in Liber de Caesaribus – a historiographical approach

Summary/Abstract: The work deals, from a historiographical perspective, with the delimitation of the evolutionary stages of the Roman imperial monarchy in Liber de Caesaribus by Sextus Aurelius Victor. This topic has attracted the attention of several researchers in recent decades: Chester Starr, Willem Den Boer, Pierre Dufraigne, Eugen Cizek, Giorgio Bonamente, Nelu Zugravu and Moisés Antiqueira. However, the subjective nature of the chronological scheme developed by Aurelius Victor has led to divergent conclusions. These refer to the number of chronological cuts, the determining criteria for division, the factors that the Latin historian took into account in demarcating the historical periods or cycles, on the one hand, and to the philosophical, religious and moral resources that founded such a chronology, on the other hand.

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