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 Bull-Leaping • Analogical reasoning • Dialectics in Assyro-Babylonian texts • Scribal education • Epic poetry • Babylonian Wisdom Literature • Mesopotamian literature • Kingship • Folktale • Dance • Myth • Dialogue and debate • Sumerian • Polycrates • Babylonian Theodicy • Narrative irony • Religious medicine • Heritage • Near Eastern languages and cultures • Narrative Dances • Herodotus • Cult Festivals • Falsehood • Jotham’s Fable • Scientia • Babylonian literature • Science • Satire • Greek literature • The Babylonian Theodicy • Poetry • Scribalism • Homer • Scholarly text compilation • Gilgamesh • Epics • Sumerian proverbs • Astronomy • Gorgo • Hellenistic Uruk • Hellenistic Jerusalem • Scribal school • Performance • Wisdom • The Book of Qohele • Royal legislation • Epistemology • Ancient Greek • Greek medicine • Ancient Greece • Hittites • Morality tale • Proverbs • Tupšarrūtu • Erra and Išum • Philosophy • Periander • Rational medicine • Wisdom Literature of the Eastern Mediterranean bas • Ashurbanipal • Mesopotamia • Assyriology • Episteme • Biblical studies • Tradition • Egyptian medicine • Truth • Audience • The Epic of Gilgameš • Law • Wisdom literature • Hesiod • Magical medicine • Parody • Wisdom traditions • Classical studies • Female advisors • Cuneiform world • Nēmequ • Sophia
Thema codes NHC • DSBB • 1FB • 3CG
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
Subseries Studi orientali e-ISSN 2610-9336 ISSN 2610-881X
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