Between Greece and Babylonia - Hellenistic Intellectual History in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Informationen zum Autor Kathryn Stevens is Associate Professor in Classics and Ancient History at University of Durham. Her main research interests are in Greek and Mesopotamian cultural and intellectual history, with a particular focus on the Hellenistic period. She has published articles on Greek geography, Seleucid kingship, ancient libraries and localism in the Hellenistic world, and is currently co-editing the first collected volume on the Astronomical Diaries from Babylon, entitled Keeping Watch in Babylon: The Astronomical Diaries in Context (forthcoming, with J. Haubold and J. Steele). Klappentext Focusing on Greece and Babylonia, this book provides a new, cross-cultural approach to the intellectual history of the Hellenistic world. Zusammenfassung This books proposes a new! cross-cultural approach to Hellenistic intellectual history! focusing on Greece and Babylonia. Connecting intellectual life in the two regions through direct contact as well as parallel responses to Hellenistic imperialism! it argues that Hellenistic intellectual history can and should be written in cross-cultural perspective. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. In search of Hellenistic intellectual history; 2. The study of the heavens; 3. Berossus and the Graeco-Babyloniaca; 4. Alexandria: the missing link?; 5. Kings and scholars; 6. New horizons: Hellenistic intellectual geographies; 7. From Šulgi to Seleucus: Hellenistic local histories; 8. Epilogue: towards a new Hellenistic intellectual history.

Product details

• Authors: Kathryn Stevens, Kathryn (University of Durham) Stevens, Stevens Kathryn
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781108419550
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41955-0
• No. of pages: 454
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies; Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient Greece, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Babylonia