Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ILLUSTRATIONS vii
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
5. ABBREVIATIONS xi
6. 1. Introduction 1
7. Part I Fides: Flavian Politics
8. 2. Broken Bonds: Perfidy and the Discourse of Civil War 21
9. 3. The Fides of Flavius Josephus 45
10. 4. “A Greater Love”: Fides in Statius’ Silvae 68
11. Part II Fides: Flavian Myth
12. 5. Faith in Fate: Plot, Gods, and Metapoetic Morality in Valerius Flaccus 85
13. 6. Women’s Fides in Statius’ Thebaid 109
14. 7. Haec Pietas, Haec Fides: Permutations of Trust in Statius’ Thebaid 132
15. 8. Trust and Mistrust in the Achilleid 147
16. Part III Fides: Flavian History
17. 9. Fides, Pietas, and the Outbreak of Hostilities in Punica 1 171
18. 10. Hannibal as (Anti-)Hero of Fides in Silius’ Punica 187
19. 11. The Failure of Female Fides in the Octavia 208
20. 12. Fides under Fire: Virtue and Vice in the Octavia 232
21. Part IV. Revisiting Flavian Fides
22. 13. Flavian Fides in Tacitus’ Histories 257
23. BIBLIOGRAPHY 279
24. CONTRIBUTORS 299
25. INDEX LOCORUM 303
26. GENERAL INDEX 319