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Book SynopsisFides in Flavian Literature explores the ideology of good faith (fides) during the time of the emperors Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian (6996 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 significance and semantic range of this Roman value in works that deal in myth, contemporary poetry, and history in both prose and verse. Though it does not claim to offer the comprehensive last word on fides in Flavian Rome, the book aims to show that fides in this period was subjected to a particularly striking and special brand of contestation and reconceptualization, used to interrogate the broad cultural changes and anxieties of the Flavian period as well as connect to a republican and imperial past. The editors argue that fides was both a vehicle for reconciliation and a means to test the nature of good faith in the wake of a devastating and divisive period in Roman hi
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Introduction Antony Augoustakis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Emma Buckley, St. Andrews University, and Claire Stocks, Newcastle University Part I Fides: Flavian Politics 2. Broken Bonds: Perfidy and the Discourse of Civil War Claire Stocks, Newcastle University 3. The Fides of Flavius Josephus Steve Mason, University of Groningen 4. "A Greater Love": Fides in Statius’ Silvae Neil W. Bernstein, Ohio University Part II Fides: Flavian Myth 5. Faith in Fate: Plot, Gods, and Metapoetic Morality in Valerius Flaccus Helen Lovatt, Nottingham University 6. Women’s Fides in Statius’ Thebaid Alison Keith, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto 7. Haec Pietas, Haec Fides: Permutations of Trust in Statius’ Thebaid Antony Augoustakis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 8. Trust and Mistrust in the Achilleid Dániel Kozák, Eötvös Loránd University Part III Fides: Flavian History 9. Fides, Pietas, and the Outbreak of Hostilities in Punica Raymond Marks, University of Missouri-Columbia 10. Hannibal as (Anti-)Hero of Fides in Silius’ Punica Marco Fucecchi, University of Udine 11. The Failure of Female Fides in the Octavia Lauren Donovan Ginsberg, University of Cincinnati 12. Fides under Fire: Virtue and Vice in the Octavia Emma Buckley, St. Andrews University Part IV Revisiting Flavian Fides 13. Flavian Fides in Tacitus’ Histories Salvador Bartera, Mississippi State University Bibliography List of Contributors Index Locorum Genderal Index
