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