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