Future Thinking in Roman Culture : New Approaches to History, Memory, and Cognition (Paperback)

1 Introduction: New Approaches to Future Thinking in the Roman World  2 The Future of the Past: Fabius Pictor (and Dionysios of Halikarnassos) on the Pompa Circensis and Prospective Cultural Memory  3 Remembering the Future in Tacitus’ Annals: Germanicus’ Death and Contests of Commemoration  4 Ad Futuram Memoriam: The Augustan Ludi Saeculares  5 Staging Memories in the Home: Intention and Devotion in Pompeii and Herculaneum  6 Synagogue Inscriptions and the Politics of Prospective Memory  7 The Vicarello Milestone Beakers and Future-Oriented Mental Time Travel in the Roman Empire  8 Ancestors, Martyrs, and Fourth-Century Gold Glass: A Case of Metaintentions  9 Prospection in the Wild: Embodiment, Enactivity, and Commemoration