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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.

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Author

Antony Augoustakis; Emma Buckley; Claire Stocks

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781487532260

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism