Antiquity Studies

Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond

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

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-776-0 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-776-0 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-777-7 | Published July 9, 2024 | Language en

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