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