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" Between Greece and Babylonia : "
Kathryn Stevens, University of Durham
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BL
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839411
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Stevens, Kathryn,1986-
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Between Greece and Babylonia : : Hellenistic intellectual history in cross-cultural perspective /\ Kathryn Stevens, University of Durham
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge :: Cambridge University Press,, 2019
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, ©2019
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| Series Statement
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Cambridge classical studies
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1 online resource (xx, 443 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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1108303552
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: 9781108411417
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1108419550
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9781108419550
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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In search of Hellenistic intellectual history -- The study of the Heavens -- Berossus and the Gaeco-Babyloniaca -- Alexandria : the missing link? -- Kings and scholars -- New horizons : Hellenistic intellectual geographies -- From Sulgi to Seleucus : Hellenistic local histories -- Epilogue: Towards a new Hellenistic intellectual history.
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"This book argues for a new approach to the intellectual history of the Hellenistic world. Despite the intense cross-cultural interactions which characterised the period after Alexander, studies of 'Hellenistic' intellectual life have tended to focus on Greek scholars and institutions. Where cross-cultural connections have been drawn, it is through borrowing: the Greek adoption of Babylonian astrology; the Egyptian scholar Manetho deploying Greek historiographical models. In this book, however, Kathryn Stevens advances a 'Hellenistic intellectual history' which is cross-cultural in scope and goes beyond borrowing and influence. Drawing on a wide range of Greek and Akkadian sources, she argues that intellectual life in the Greek world and Babylonia can be linked not just through occasional contact and influence, but also by deeper parallels in intellectual culture that reflect their integration into the same overarching imperial system. Tracing such parallels yields intellectual history which is diverse, multipolar and, therefore, truly 'Hellenistic'"--
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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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Hellenism-- Historiography.
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Hellenism-- Historiography.
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HISTORY-- Ancient-- Greece.
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Intellectual life.
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Babylonia, Intellectual life, History.
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Greece, Intellectual life, To 146 B.C.
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Greece.
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Middle East, Babylonia.
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| Dewey Classification
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938/.08
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DF77.S665 2019
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