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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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Otros Autores: Augoustakis, Antony (Editor , Contribuidor), Bartera, Salvador (Contribuidor), Bernstein, Neil W. (Contribuidor), Buckley, Emma (Contribuidor, Editor ), Fucecchi, Marco (Contribuidor), Ginsberg, Lauren Donovan (Contribuidor), Keith, Alison (Contribuidor), Kozák, Dániel (Contribuidor), Lovatt, Helen (Contribuidor), Marks, Raymond (Contribuidor), Mason, Steve (Contribuidor), Stocks, Claire (Contribuidor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Colección:Phoenix Supplementary Volumes ; 56
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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