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).

'Genuinely innovative books are rare: Between Greece and Babylon: Hellenistic Intellectual History in Cross-Cultural Perspective is such a work, and the subtitle accurately describes the book's goal. An important work that belongs in all university libraries.' S. M. Burstein, Choice

• 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.

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).

'Genuinely innovative books are rare: Between Greece and Babylon: Hellenistic Intellectual History in Cross-Cultural Perspective is such a work, and the subtitle accurately describes the book's goal. An important work that belongs in all university libraries.' S. M. Burstein, Choice

• 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.