Between Greece and Babylonia: Hellenistic Intellectual History in Cross-Cultural Perspective
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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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Stevens, Kathryn, 1986-, Between Greece and Babylonia : Hellenistic intellectual history in cross-cultural perspective] (2021) (Santini, Marco)
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| Series/Journal: | Cambridge Classical Studies
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Babylonia
/ Greece (Antiquity)
/ Culture
/ History 336 BC-30 BC
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Electronic books
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| Summary: | Focusing on Greece and Babylonia, this book provides a new, cross-cultural approach to the intellectual history of the Hellenistic world. Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Transliteration, Transcription and Translation -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 In Search of Hellenistic Intellectual History -- 1.1 'Hellenistic Intellectual History' -- 1.2 The Test Case: Greece and Mesopotamia -- 1.3 Sources and Scope -- Chapter 2 The Study of the Heavens -- 2.1 A Note on Terminology: Astronomy, Astrology, Transmission -- 2.2 Pre-Hellenistic Contacts -- 2.3 The Hellenistic Period -- 2.4 Reciprocal Influence? -- Chapter 3 Berossus and the Graeco-Babyloniaca -- 3.1 A Scholar between Two Worlds: Berossus and the Babyloniaca -- 3.2 Beyond Berossus -- 3.3 Bilingual Schooling in Babylon? The Graeco-Babyloniaca -- Chapter 4 Alexandria: the Missing Link? -- 4.1 The Limits of Alexandrian Universalism -- 4.2 Foreigners in the Library? -- 4.3 From Aššurbanipal to Alexandria? The Case for Mesopotamian Influence -- Chapter 5 Kings and Scholars -- 5.1 Conger Eels and Cuneiform -- 5.2 Philosophers and Philologoi: Greek Intellectuals and Hellenistic Kings -- 5.3 Priests and Pragmatists: Babylonian Scholars and the Hellenistic Kings -- 5.4 The View from Babylon: Greek Intellectual Patronage Revisited -- Chapter 6 New Horizons: Hellenistic Intellectual Geographies -- 6.1 Intellectual Geographies in Hellenistic Greek and Akkadian Texts -- 6.2 Bridging the Gap -- 6.3 'Hellenistic' Intellectual Change: Aristotle, Theophrastus and the Babylonian Astronomical Diaries -- Appendix 1 References in Historia Animalium and Historia Plantarum to Places Discussed -- Appendix 2 References in Diaries and Chronicles to Places Discussed -- Chapter 7 From Šulgi to Seleucus: Hellenistic Local Histories -- 7.1 Local Intellectual Worlds -- 7.2 Hellenistic Local Histories in Greece and Babylonia. |
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| ISBN: | 1108321747 |