Series | Antiquity Studies
Volume 36 | Edited book | Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond
Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond
open access | peer reviewed-
edited by
- Maurizio Viano - Università degli Studi di Torino, Italia - email
- Francesco Sironi - Università degli Studi di Milano, Italia - email
Aims & Scope
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 Scientia Mesopotamia Scribalism Astronomy Narrative Dances Royal legislation Scribal education Female advisors Magical medicine Greek medicine Gorgo Periander Religious medicine Epics Nēmequ Ashurbanipal Science Babylonian Wisdom Literature Herodotus Sumerian Polycrates Epic poetry Rational medicine Cuneiform world Erra and Išum Scholarly text compilation Hellenistic Jerusalem Hesiod Hittites Tupšarrūtu Kingship Wisdom literature Falsehood Philosophy The Book of Qohele Jotham’s Fable Dialogue and debate Greek literature Babylonian Theodicy The Babylonian Theodicy Narrative irony The Epic of Gilgameš Truth Wisdom traditions Babylonian literature Law Satire Folktale Dance Morality tale Wisdom Literature of the Eastern Mediterranean bas Epistemology Gilgamesh Myth Egyptian medicine Homer Cult Festivals Bull-Leaping Episteme Proverbs Mesopotamian literature Wisdom Parody Ancient Greek Dialectics in Assyro-Babylonian texts Hellenistic Uruk
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-776-0 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-777-7 | e-ISSN 978-88-6969-776-0 | Published Nov. 30, 2023 | Language en
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