Fides in Flavian Literature

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 IllustrationsAcknowledgments Abbreviations1. Introduction Antony Augoustakis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Emma Buckley, St. Andrews University, and Claire Stocks, Newcastle UniversityPart I Fides: Flavian Politics2. Broken Bonds: Perfidy and the Discourse of Civil War Claire Stocks, Newcastle University3. The Fides of Flavius Josephus Steve Mason, University of Groningen4. "A Greater Love": Fides in Statius’ Silvae Neil W. Bernstein, Ohio UniversityPart II Fides: Flavian Myth5. Faith in Fate: Plot, Gods, and Metapoetic Morality in Valerius Flaccus Helen Lovatt, Nottingham University6. Women’s Fides in Statius’ Thebaid Alison Keith, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto7. 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 UniversityPart III Fides: Flavian History9. Fides, Pietas, and the Outbreak of Hostilities in Punica Raymond Marks, University of Missouri-Columbia10. Hannibal as (Anti-)Hero of Fides in Silius’ Punica Marco Fucecchi, University of Udine11. The Failure of Female Fides in the Octavia Lauren Donovan Ginsberg, University of Cincinnati12. Fides under Fire: Virtue and Vice in the Octavia Emma Buckley, St. Andrews UniversityPart IV Revisiting Flavian Fides13. Flavian Fides in Tacitus’ Histories Salvador Bartera, Mississippi State UniversityBibliographyList of Contributors Index Locorum Genderal Index