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�…

This chapter considers four silver beakers manufactured in Gades (modern C�diz, Spain)
and ultimately deposited in the sacred springs of Aquae Apollinares (modern Vicarello�…

What and how do people remember? Who controls the process of what we call cultural or
social memory? What is forgotten and why? People's memories are not the same as history�…

Memory studies—one of the most vibrant research fields of the present day—brings together
such diverse disciplines as art and archaeology, history, religion, literature, sociology, media�…

To understand the complex processes of change that Roman society underwent with the
advent and expansion of Christianity, scholars of the late antique and early Christian period�…

More than any men known to us, the Romans love their city and strive to protect all their
ancestral treasures so that nothing of Rome's ancient glory will be obliterated....[Even in the�…

This chapter is divided into three sections, moving from social and historical memory outside
historiography to historiography proper; the last section, dealing with the very center of�…

[About the book] Concern with memory permeated Roman literature, history, rhetorical
training, and art and architecture. This is the first book to look at the phenomenon from a�…

Memory and remembering are presently much in vogue in humanistic and social science
discourse. We are experiencing the revival of a topos that played a principal role throughout�…

This book contains a series of studies that take the ancient texts as evidence of the past, and
show how medieval readers and writers understood them. In particular, they examine how�…