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Fides in Flavian Literature 1st Edition
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University of Toronto Press
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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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Fides in Flavian Literature 1st Edition
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Antony Augoustakis
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1st Edition
ISBN

9781487532260, 9781487505530
Publisher

University of Toronto Press
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PDF and EPUB

Description

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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