Abstract
Introduction titled "The Epitome de Caesaribus and Its Significance for Modern Scholarship on the Historiography of Late Antiquity" presents the time period and literary context of the emergence of the anonymously preserved Epitome de Caesaribus, identifies the originally intended meaning of its modern title which so far has been misrepresented in the Czech and Slovak milieu, and summarizes the attempts at identifying the unknown author, none of which, however, has received any wider recognition as yet. Most of the interest, however, the Epitome attracts because in its text the sources are quite well recognizible which its author drew upon and among which there is at least one but rather two currently lost ones.
One of them, the so called Enmannsche Kaisergeschichte, was completely unknown and revealed only by modern scholarship, of the other only its author and maybe title is known, yet the identification of these so called annals of Nicomachus Flavianus as the source in question is controversial. As on the basis of the text of the Epitome it is possible and even desirable to continue research on these sources, the discussion is surveyed in great detail.
The translation of the Epitome is the first modern one and the first accompanied by a commentary.