Fides in Flavian Literature

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Acknowledgments
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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