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