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