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