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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Augoustakis, Antony, Editor.

Buckley, Emma, Editor.

Stocks, Claire, Editor.

Series:

Phoenix Supplementary Volumes ; 56

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin literature--History and criticism.

Latin literature.

Fides (The Latin word).

Trust in literature.

Rome (Empire).

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

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

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:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

1. Introduction / Augoustakis, Antony / Buckley, Emma / Stocks, Claire

Part I Fides: Flavian Politics

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

3. The Fides of Flavius Josephus / Mason, Steve

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

Part II Fides: Flavian Myth

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

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

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

8. Trust and Mistrust in the Achilleid / Kozák, Dániel

Part III Fides: Flavian History

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

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

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

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

Part IV. Revisiting Flavian Fides

13. Flavian Fides in Tacitus' Histories / Bartera, Salvador

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CONTRIBUTORS

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Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

1-4875-3226-1

1-4875-3225-3

OCLC:

1113865985