Kathryn Stevens

Between Greece and Babylonia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on Greece and Babylonia, this book provides a new, cross-cultural approach to the intellectual history of the Hellenistic world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 713g
• ISBN-13: 9781108419550
• ISBN-10: 1108419550
• Artikelnr.: 54802050

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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 ulgi to Seleucus: Hellenistic local histories
8. Epilogue: towards a new Hellenistic intellectual history.