Classical Traditions and Future Thinking in Late Antiquity

该项目旨在调查经典文本是如何被用来批评传统的希腊-罗马预测未来的形式。它将表明，未来的思考对于政治和宗教在社会中的作用至关重要，特别是在持续不确定的时代。该项目的成果包括更多地欣赏晚期古代思想家用来对抗和利用古典思想的战略，不确定性可能对未来知识模式产生的持久影响，以及晚期古代的智力发展。该项目将使澳大利亚文化受益，让人们更清楚地了解当世界经历重大的政治和社会变化时，人类如何构建、操纵和利用未来的思维。

The project aims to investigate how Classical texts were used to critique traditional Greco-Roman forms of predicting the future. It will show that future thinking is critical to the function of politics and religion in society, especially in times of sustained uncertainty. The project’s outcomes include a greater appreciation of the strategies Late-Antique thinkers used to confront and exploit Classical thought, the lasting impact uncertainty may have on modes of future knowledge, and the intellectual developments of Late Antiquity. The project will benefit Australian culture by offering a clearer grasp of how humans construct, manipulate, and make use of future thinking when the world undergoes significant political and social flux.