Scholarly tablet collections in first-millennium Assyria and Babylonia, c.700–200 BCE
(2019)
Book Chapter
Robson, E., & Stevens, K. (2019). Scholarly tablet collections in first-millennium Assyria and Babylonia, c.700–200 BCE. In G. Barjamovic, & K. Ryholt (Eds.), Libraries before Alexandria : ancient near eastern traditions (317-364). Oxford University Press
Between Greece and Babylonia: Hellenistic Intellectual History in Cross-Cultural Perspective (2019)
Book
Stevens, K. (2019). Between Greece and Babylonia: Hellenistic Intellectual History in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108303552This 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... Read More about Between Greece and Babylonia: Hellenistic Intellectual History in Cross-Cultural Perspective.
Keeping Watch in Babylon: The Astronomical Diaries in Context (2019)
Book
Haubold, J., Steele, J., & Stevens, K. (Eds.). (2019). Keeping Watch in Babylon: The Astronomical Diaries in Context. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004397767
From Babylon to Bahtar: the geography of the Astronomical Diaries (2019)
Book Chapter
Stevens, K. (2019). From Babylon to Bahtar: the geography of the Astronomical Diaries. In J. Haubold, J. Steele, & K. Stevens (Eds.), Keeping watch in Babylon : the astronomical diaries in context (198-236). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004397767_009
Empire begins at home: local elites and imperial ideologies in Hellenistic Greece and Babylonia (2016)
Book Chapter
Stevens, K. (2016). Empire begins at home: local elites and imperial ideologies in Hellenistic Greece and Babylonia. In M. Lavan, R. Payne, & J. Weisweiler (Eds.), Cosmopolitanism and empire : universal rulers, local elites, and cultural integration in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean (65-88). Oxford University Press
Review of Dillery (J.) Clio's Other Sons: Berossus and Manetho, with an Afterword on Demetrius. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. Pp. xxxviii + 494. $50. 9780472052271 (2016)
Journal Article
Stevens, K. (2016). Review of Dillery (J.) Clio's Other Sons: Berossus and Manetho, with an Afterword on Demetrius. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. Pp. xxxviii + 494. $50. 9780472052271. The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 136, 242-243. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075426916000598
From Herodotus to a “Hellenistic” world? The eastern geographies of Aristotle and Theophrastus (2015)
Book Chapter
Stevens, K. (2015). From Herodotus to a “Hellenistic” world? The eastern geographies of Aristotle and Theophrastus. In E. Barker, S. Bouzarovski, C. Pelling, & L. Isaksen (Eds.), New Worlds from Old Texts: Revisiting Ancient Space and Place (121-152). Oxford University Press
The Antiochus Cylinder, Babylonian Scholarship and Seleucid Imperial Ideology (2014)
Journal Article
Stevens, K. (2014). The Antiochus Cylinder, Babylonian Scholarship and Seleucid Imperial Ideology. The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 134, 66-88. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075426914000068With few surviving Greek sources from Hellenistic Babylonia, we are often ill-informed about the details of Seleucid imperialism ‘on the ground’ — in particular, about the Seleucids' relationship with the Babylonian priestly elites and Babylonian cul... Read More about The Antiochus Cylinder, Babylonian Scholarship and Seleucid Imperial Ideology.
Review of M. Vierros, Bilingual Notaries in Hellenistic Egypt: A Study of Greek as a Second Language (2014)
Journal Article
Stevens, K. (2014). Review of M. Vierros, Bilingual Notaries in Hellenistic Egypt: A Study of Greek as a Second Language. The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 290-291. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075426914002729
Secrets in the Library: Protected Scholarship and Professional Identity in Late Babylonian Uruk (2013)
Journal Article
Stevens, K. (2013). Secrets in the Library: Protected Scholarship and Professional Identity in Late Babylonian Uruk. IRAQ, 75, 211-253. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021088900000474Injunctions to secrecy in the colophons of scholarly cuneiform tablets offer potential insights into the classification and protection of knowledge in Mesopotamia. However, most models of a body of “secret knowledge” defined by the so-called “Geheimw... Read More about Secrets in the Library: Protected Scholarship and Professional Identity in Late Babylonian Uruk.
Collations to the Antiochus Cylinder (BM 36277) (2012)
Journal Article
Stevens, K. (2012). Collations to the Antiochus Cylinder (BM 36277). NABU. Nouvelles assyriologiques brèves et utilitaires, 2012(2), 46-47