This article examines how the Capitoline Hill influenced Roman cultural perspectives on futurity, suggesting significant implications for understanding their history.
summary: This article argues that the Capitoline Hill was strongly associated with futurity in Roman culture. Drawing on contemporary practice theory and a wide range of material and textual evidence, the article proposes that activity around the hill from the archaic through high imperial period—construction, public rituals, storytelling, poetic prediction, juristic exemplification—generated Capitoline futures. More broadly, the article seeks to affirm the value of anthropological histories of Roman futurity.
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