Future Thinking in Roman Culture
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 opens a new avenue of investigation for Roman memory studies in presenting multiple case studies of memory and commemoration as future-thinking phenomena. It breaks new ground by bringing classical studies into direct dialogue with recent research on cognitive processes of future thinking. The thematically linked but methodologically diverse contributions, all by leading scholars who have published significant work in memory studies of antiquity, both cultural and cognitive, make the volume well suited for classical studies scholars and students seeking to explore cognitive science and philosophy of mind in ancient contexts, with special appeal to those sharing the growing interest in investigating Roman conceptions of futurity and time. The chapters all deliberately coalesce around the central theme of prospection and future thinking and their impact on our understanding of Roman ritual and religion, politics, and individual motivation and intention.
This volume will be an invaluable resource to undergraduate and postgraduate students of classics, art history, archaeology, history, and religious studies, as well as scholars and students of memory studies, historical and cultural cognitive studies, psychology, and philosophy.
Maggie L. Popkin is the Robson Junior Professor in the Humanities and Associate Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University, USA. She is the author of The Architecture of the Roman Triumph: Monuments, Memory, and Identity (2016). Her research on Greek and Roman art and architecture has appeared in numerous edited volumes and journals including the American Journal of Archaeology, Hesperia, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and the Journal of Late Antiquity. She is a senior member of the American excavations in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods at Samothrace, Greece.
Diana Y. Ng is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA. Her research and publications address civic engagements with mythical history via public sculpture and architecture in Asia Minor, elite commemoration, and the application of cognitive theories of learning and remembering to the investigation of Roman public statuary and theatrical space. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Roman Studies, Istanbuler Mitteilungen, and edited volumes on Roman art, memory studies, and applications of cognitive theory to classical studies. She is the co-editor, with Molly Swetnam-Burland, of Reuse and Renovation in Roman Material Culture: Functions, Aesthetics, Interpretations (2018).
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Names: Popkin, Maggie L., 1981editor, author. | Ng, Diana Y. (Diana
Yi-Man), 1978editor, author.
Title: Future thinking in Roman culture : new approaches to history, memory,
and cognition/edited by Maggie L. Popkin and Diana Y. Ng.
Description: New York : Routledge, 2022. | Series: Routledge monographs in
classical studies | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021033492 (print) | LCCN 2021033493 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780367687809 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367687816 (paperback) |
ISBN 9781003139027 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: RomeSocial life and customs. | MemorySocial
aspectsRome. | Prospective memoryRome. | TimePsychological
aspects. | Future, ThePsychological aspects. | Material cultureRome. |
Cognition and cultureRome. | RomeHistoriography.
Classification: LCC DG78 .F888 2022 (print) | LCC DG78 (ebook) |
DDC 937dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021033492
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021033493
ISBN: 978-0-367-68780-9 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-68781-6 (pbk)
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DOI: 10.4324/9781003139027
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Contents
MAGGIE L. POPKIN AND DIANA Y. NG
2 The future of the past: Fabius Pictor (and Dionysios of Halikarnassos) on the pompa circensis and prospective cultural memory
JACOB A. LATHAM
3 Remembering the future in Tacitus Annals: Germanicus death and contests of commemoration
AARON SEIDER
4 Ad futuram memoriam: the Augustan Ludi Saeculares
ERIC ORLIN
5 Staging memories in the home: intention and devotion in Pompeii and Herculaneum
MOLLY SWETNAM-BURLAND
6 Synagogue inscriptions and the politics of prospective memory
KAREN B. STERN
7 The Vicarello milestone beakers and future-oriented mental time travel in the Roman Empire
