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