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