Fides in Flavian literature / edited by Antony Augoustakis, Emma Buckley, and Claire Stocks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Augoustakis, Antony, editor.

Buckley, Emma, editor.

Stocks, Claire, editor.

Series:

Phoenix. Supplementary volume ; 56.

Phoenix. Supplementary volume ; 55

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin literature--History and criticism.

Latin literature.

Fides (The Latin word).

Trust in literature.

Faith in literature.

Rome--History--Flavians, 69-96.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 328 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2019.

Summary:

"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 significance and semantic range of this Roman value in works that deal in myth, history in prose and verse, and the poetry of contemporary society. Though it does not claim to offer the comprehensive "last word" on fides in Flavian Rome, it aims to show that fides in this period was subjected to a particularly striking and special brand of contestation and re-conceptualization, 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 of Roman history."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Introduction p. 3 / Antony Aucoustakis and Emma Buckley and Claire Stocks

Part I Fides: Flavian Politics p. 19

2 Broken Bonds: Perfidy and the Discourse of Civil War p. 21 / Claire Stocks

3 The Fides of Flavius Josephus p. 45 / Steve Mason

4 "A Greater Love": Fides in Statius' Silvae p. 68 / Neil W. Bernstein

Part II Fides: Flavian Myth p. 83

5 Faith in Fate: Plot, Gods, and Metapoetic Morality in Valerius Flaccus p. 85 / Helen Lovatt

6 Women's Fides in Statius' Thebaid p. 109 / Alison Keith

7 Haec Pietas, Haec Fides: Permutations of Trust in Statius' Thebaid p. 132 / Antony Augoustakis

8 Trust and Mistrust in the Achilleid p. 147 / Dániel Kozák

Part III Fides: Flavian History p. 169

9 Fides, Pietas, and the Outbreak of Hostilities in Punica 1 p. 171 / Raymond Marks

10 Hannibal as (Anti-)Hero of Fides in Silius' Punica p. 187 / Marco Fucecchi

11 The Failure of Female Fides in the Octavia p. 208 / Lauren Donovan Ginsberg

12 Fides under Fire: Virtue and Vice in the Octavia p. 232 / Emma Buckley

Part IV Revisiting Flavian Fides p. 255

13 Flavian Fides in Tacitus' Histories p. 257 / Salvador Baktera.

Notes:

Series numbering should read: 56.

"This collection of essay on Fides in Flavian literature is the result of an international conference organized by Claire Stocks at the Soeterbeeck Centre, Ravenstein, the Netherlands, on 6-7 June 2015 and the Society for Classical Studies panel, "Fides in Flavian Literature," organized in 2016 by the three co-editors of this volume."--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781487505530

1487505531

OCLC:

1089491270