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