Future thinking in Roman culture : new approaches to history, memory, and cognition

Future thinking in Roman culture : new approaches to history, memory, and cognition / edited by Maggie L. Popkin and Diana Y. Ng.

"Future Thinking in Roman Culture is the first volume dedicated to the exploration of prospective memory and future thinking in the Roman world, integrating cutting edge research in cognitive sciences and theory with approaches to historiography, epigraphy, and material culture. This volume ope...

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Main Authors: Popkin, Maggie L., 1981- (Author, Editor), Ng, Diana Y. (Diana Yi-Man) (Author, Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxfordshire ; New York : Routledge, 2022.
Series:Routledge monographs in classical studies.
Subjects:
Memory > Social aspects > Rome.
Prospective memory > Rome.
Time > Psychological aspects.
Future, The > Psychological aspects.
Material culture > Rome.
Cognition and culture > Rome.
Rome > Social life and customs.
Rome > Historiography.
Table of Contents:
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • List of contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: new approaches to future thinking in the Roman world / Maggie L. Popkin and Diana Y. Ng
  • The future of the past: Fabius Pictor (and Dionysios of Halikarnassos) on the pompa circensis and prospective cultural memory / Jacob A. Latham
  • Remembering the future in Tacitus' Annals: Germanicus' death and contests of commemoration / Aaron Seider
  • Ad futuram memoriam: the Augustan Ludi Saeculares / Eric Orlin
  • Staging memories in the home: intention and devotion in Pompeii and Herculaneum / Molly Swetnam-Burland
  • Synagogue inscriptions and the politics of prospective memory / Karen B. Stern
  • The Vicarello milestone beakers and future-oriented mental time travel in the Roman Empire / Maggie L. Popkin
  • Ancestors, martyrs, and fourth-century gold glass: a case of metaintentions / Susan Ludi Blevins
  • Prospection in the wild: embodiment, enactivity, and commemoration / Diana Y. Ng
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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