Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond
open access | peer reviewed
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edited by
- Francesco Sironi - Università degli Studi di Milano, Italia - email
- Maurizio Viano - Università degli Studi di Torino, Italia - email
Abstract
The volume publishes the proceeding of the workshop Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond held at the University of Turin on 26-27 October 2022. The volume collects papers from Assyriologists, Classicists and Biblical scholars around the topic of wisdom. Scholars have investigated wisdom from various angles, from speculative thought to literature, from science, to dance, to proverbs.
Keywords Religious medicine • Dance • Cuneiform world • Cult Festivals • Ancient Greece • Polycrates • Parody • Hellenistic Jerusalem • Narrative irony • Nēmequ • Babylonian Theodicy • Scribal school • Philosophy • The Book of Qohele • Female advisors • Wisdom literature • Sumerian • Near Eastern languages and cultures • Royal legislation • Assyriology • Wisdom Literature of the Eastern Mediterranean bas • Tupšarrūtu • Science • Ancient Greek • Greek literature • Epics • Babylonian literature • Magical medicine • Episteme • Law • Mesopotamia • Scribalism • Proverbs • Tradition • Kingship • Classical studies • Wisdom • Folktale • Dialectics in Assyro-Babylonian texts • Astronomy • Wisdom traditions • Dialogue and debate • Rational medicine • Epic poetry • Biblical studies • Gilgamesh • Narrative Dances • Babylonian Wisdom Literature • Mesopotamian literature • Sumerian proverbs • Homer • Falsehood • Performance • Hittites • Periander • The Babylonian Theodicy • Myth • Hesiod • Egyptian medicine • Analogical reasoning • Erra and Išum • Hellenistic Uruk • Herodotus • Truth • Poetry • Satire • The Epic of Gilgameš • Epistemology • Ashurbanipal • Sophia • Audience • Bull-Leaping • Jotham’s Fable • Morality tale • Scribal education • Gorgo • Heritage • Scholarly text compilation • Greek medicine • Scientia
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