Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond
open access | peer reviewed
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edited by
- Francesco Sironi - University of Milan - email
- Maurizio Viano - University of Turin - 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 Astronomy • Near Eastern languages and cultures • Gilgamesh • Truth • Performance • Kingship • Assyriology • Wisdom • Ancient Greek • Narrative Dances • Scientia • Epics • Dialectics in Assyro-Babylonian texts • Greek medicine • Wisdom Literature of the Eastern Mediterranean bas • Episteme • Mesopotamia • Parody • Sumerian proverbs • Biblical studies • Mesopotamian literature • Rational medicine • Herodotus • The Babylonian Theodicy • Heritage • Proverbs • Satire • Sumerian • Babylonian Theodicy • Science • The Epic of Gilgameš • Poetry • Tradition • Epic poetry • Hellenistic Uruk • Epistemology • Royal legislation • Scribal school • Dance • Analogical reasoning • Ancient Greece • Bull-Leaping • Periander • Female advisors • Morality tale • Babylonian Wisdom Literature • Dialogue and debate • Religious medicine • Ashurbanipal • Babylonian literature • Scholarly text compilation • Hellenistic Jerusalem • Audience • Magical medicine • Scribalism • Philosophy • Classical studies • Wisdom traditions • Folktale • Narrative irony • Myth • Hittites • Falsehood • Polycrates • Sophia • Gorgo • Cuneiform world • Tupšarrūtu • Wisdom literature • The Book of Qohele • Homer • Jotham’s Fable • Scribal education • Erra and Išum • Hesiod • Greek literature • Egyptian medicine • Law • Cult Festivals • Nēmequ
Thema codes NHC • DSBB • 1FB • 3CG
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