Fides in Flavian Literature /
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...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2019]
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Colección: | Phoenix Supplementary Volumes ;
56 |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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