Fides in Flavian Literature / / ed. by Antony Augoustakis, Emma Buckley, Claire Stocks.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020
• HerausgeberIn: Augoustakis, Antony ,; Buckley, Emma,; Stocks, Claire,
• MitwirkendeR: Augoustakis, Antony,; Bartera, Salvador,; Bernstein, Neil W.,; Buckley, Emma,; Fucecchi, Marco,; Ginsberg, Lauren Donovan,; Keith, Alison,; Kozák, Dániel,; Lovatt, Helen,; Marks, Raymond,; Mason, Steve,; Stocks, Claire,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Phoenix Supplementary Volumes ; 56
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

Fides in Flavian Literature explores the ideology of "good faith" (fides) during the time of the emperors Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian (69-96 CE), the new imperial dynasty that gained power in the wake of the civil wars of the period. The contributors to this volume consider the signific...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ILLUSTRATIONS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• ABBREVIATIONS
• 1. Introduction
• Part I Fides: Flavian Politics
• 2. Broken Bonds: Perfidy and the Discourse of Civil War
• 3. The Fides of Flavius Josephus
• 4. "A Greater Love": Fides in Statius' Silvae
• Part II Fides: Flavian Myth
• 5. Faith in Fate: Plot, Gods, and Metapoetic Morality in Valerius Flaccus
• 6. Women's Fides in Statius' Thebaid
• 7. Haec Pietas, Haec Fides: Permutations of Trust in Statius' Thebaid
• 8. Trust and Mistrust in the Achilleid
• Part III Fides: Flavian History
• 9. Fides, Pietas, and the Outbreak of Hostilities in Punica 1
• 10. Hannibal as (Anti-)Hero of Fides in Silius' Punica
• 11. The Failure of Female Fides in the Octavia
• 12. Fides under Fire: Virtue and Vice in the Octavia
• Part IV. Revisiting Flavian Fides
• 13. Flavian Fides in Tacitus' Histories
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX LOCORUM
• GENERAL INDEX