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