Fides in Flavian Literature -

Fides in Flavian Literature

Buch | Hardcover
344 Seiten
2019
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0553-0 (ISBN)
69,80 inkl. MwSt
This book investigates the presence of Fides ("good faith") in Flavian literature, exploring its ideological significance in the aftermath of Rome’s civil wars (68–69 CE) in a variety of works by prose and verse authors.
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, 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 history.

Antony Augoustakis is a professor in the Department of the Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Emma Buckley is a senior lecturer in the School of Classics at the University of St Andrews. Claire Stocks is a lecturer in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at Newcastle University.

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
Verlagsort Toronto
Sprache englisch
Maße 165 x 235 mm
Gewicht 660 g
Themenwelt Literatur Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-4875-0553-1 / 1487505531
ISBN-13 978-1-4875-0553-0 / 9781487505530
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