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