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 Hesiod • Heritage • Mesopotamia • Tupšarrūtu • Assyriology • Herodotus • Truth • Sumerian proverbs • Babylonian literature • Royal legislation • The Book of Qohele • Proverbs • Narrative Dances • Egyptian medicine • Hittites • Falsehood • Poetry • Rational medicine • Cuneiform world • Scholarly text compilation • Wisdom traditions • Philosophy • Jotham’s Fable • Sophia • Scribal education • Wisdom • Cult Festivals • Wisdom literature • Female advisors • Kingship • Scientia • Sumerian • Gorgo • Scribal school • Dance • Epics • Near Eastern languages and cultures • Audience • Periander • Tradition • Babylonian Wisdom Literature • Folktale • Hellenistic Uruk • Analogical reasoning • Performance • Greek literature • Babylonian Theodicy • Polycrates • Episteme • Homer • Parody • Religious medicine • Epistemology • Wisdom Literature of the Eastern Mediterranean bas • Ashurbanipal • Hellenistic Jerusalem • Astronomy • Myth • Morality tale • Erra and Išum • Dialectics in Assyro-Babylonian texts • Mesopotamian literature • Science • Classical studies • Magical medicine • Nēmequ • Narrative irony • Gilgamesh • Ancient Greek • Satire • Epic poetry • The Epic of Gilgameš • Biblical studies • Bull-Leaping • Scribalism • Dialogue and debate • Law • Ancient Greece • The Babylonian Theodicy • Greek medicine
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