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