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