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Volume 36 | Miscellanea | Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond
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 Scholarly text compilation • Wisdom Literature of the Eastern Mediterranean bas • Ancient Greece • Audience • Falsehood • Wisdom traditions • Poetry • Hellenistic Uruk • Ancient Greek • Dance • Wisdom • Satire • The Book of Qohele • Royal legislation • Science • Astronomy • Epic poetry • Gilgamesh • Parody • Religious medicine • Dialectics in Assyro-Babylonian texts • Hesiod • Epics • Herodotus • Myth • Rational medicine • Bull-Leaping • Wisdom literature • Sumerian proverbs • Babylonian Theodicy • Folktale • Kingship • Mesopotamian literature • Sumerian • Philosophy • Morality tale • Law • Narrative irony • Performance • Jotham’s Fable • Polycrates • Analogical reasoning • Tradition • Heritage • Babylonian literature • Cuneiform world • Proverbs • Female advisors • Epistemology • Near Eastern languages and cultures • Hellenistic Jerusalem • Narrative Dances • Ashurbanipal • Scribal school • Egyptian medicine • The Epic of Gilgameš • Homer • Mesopotamia • Tupšarrūtu • Nēmequ • Dialogue and debate • Assyriology • Babylonian Wisdom Literature • Erra and Išum • Truth • The Babylonian Theodicy • Cult Festivals • Magical medicine • Scribal education • Scientia • Greek literature • Greek medicine • Gorgo • Hittites • Periander • Scribalism • Sophia • Classical studies • Biblical studies • Episteme
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 | Pubblicato 09 Luglio 2024 | Lingua en
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Section 1. Wisdom and Knowledge
Section 2. Sages and Practitioners
Section 3. Literature and Wisdom Traditions