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- The Future of Rome
- The Future of Rome
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Some Remarks on Cicero’s Perception of the Future of Rome
- Chapter 2 Eclogue 4 and the Futures of Rome
- Chapter 3 Imperium sine fine: Rome’s Future in Augustan Epic
- Chapter 4 Posterity in the Arval Acta
- Chapter 5 The Future of Rome in Three Greek Historians of Rome
- Chapter 6 Philo on the Impermanence of Empires
- Chapter 7 From Human Freedom to Divine Intervention
- Chapter 8 Josephus, Caligula and the Future of Rome
- Chapter 9 “Will This One Never Be Brought Down?”
- Chapter 10 The Sibylline Oracles and Resistance to Rome
- Chapter 11 Revelation 17.1–19.10: A Prophetic Vision of the Destruction of Rome
- Chapter 12 Cicero and Vergil in the Catacombs: Pagan Messianism and Monarchic Propaganda in Constantine’s Oration to the Assembly of Saints
- Chapter 13 The Future of Rome after 410 CE
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index of Names and Places
Chapter 4 - Posterity in the Arval Acta
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2020
- The Future of Rome
- The Future of Rome
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Some Remarks on Cicero’s Perception of the Future of Rome
- Chapter 2 Eclogue 4 and the Futures of Rome
- Chapter 3 Imperium sine fine: Rome’s Future in Augustan Epic
- Chapter 4 Posterity in the Arval Acta
- Chapter 5 The Future of Rome in Three Greek Historians of Rome
- Chapter 6 Philo on the Impermanence of Empires
- Chapter 7 From Human Freedom to Divine Intervention
- Chapter 8 Josephus, Caligula and the Future of Rome
- Chapter 9 “Will This One Never Be Brought Down?”
- Chapter 10 The Sibylline Oracles and Resistance to Rome
- Chapter 11 Revelation 17.1–19.10: A Prophetic Vision of the Destruction of Rome
- Chapter 12 Cicero and Vergil in the Catacombs: Pagan Messianism and Monarchic Propaganda in Constantine’s Oration to the Assembly of Saints
- Chapter 13 The Future of Rome after 410 CE
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index of Names and Places
Summary
Romans, like ourselves, had many ways of imagining the future. They had premonitions and dreams, and sought foreknowledge from prophets, oracles and astrologers, and they tried to constrain the future with plans, precautions and restrictions. And like us too, they expressed many of their ideas about the future implicitly in habits and routines. In this chapter I aim to explore some ways in which ritual practice reveals Roman attitudes to the future, taking as its starting point the epigraphic records set up by the priestly college of the Arval Brothers during the first centuries CE.
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- The Future of RomeRoman, Greek, Jewish and Christian Visions, pp. 64 - 84Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020