Series | Antiquity Studies
Volume 36 | Edited book | Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond
Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond
open access | peer reviewed-
edited by
- 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 Nēmequ • Epics • Morality tale • Dance • Performance • Law • Greek medicine • Classical studies • The Epic of Gilgameš • Sumerian • Cuneiform world • Scribalism • Wisdom literature • Mesopotamia • Bull-Leaping • The Babylonian Theodicy • Tradition • Wisdom Literature of the Eastern Mediterranean bas • Tupšarrūtu • Near Eastern languages and cultures • Rational medicine • Episteme • Hellenistic Uruk • Wisdom traditions • Mesopotamian literature • Babylonian literature • Falsehood • The Book of Qohele • Hellenistic Jerusalem • Hesiod • Egyptian medicine • Audience • Periander • Kingship • Proverbs • Poetry • Dialectics in Assyro-Babylonian texts • Gorgo • Scribal education • Hittites • Greek literature • Magical medicine • Analogical reasoning • Astronomy • Satire • Royal legislation • Babylonian Theodicy • Ancient Greek • Biblical studies • Science • Babylonian Wisdom Literature • Homer • Folktale • Gilgamesh • Jotham’s Fable • Erra and Išum • Scholarly text compilation • Dialogue and debate • Scribal school • Epistemology • Philosophy • Wisdom • Ancient Greece • Polycrates • Narrative Dances • Sophia • Ashurbanipal • Scientia • Sumerian proverbs • Cult Festivals • Myth • Parody • Herodotus • Epic poetry • Narrative irony • Truth • Assyriology • Female advisors • Heritage • Religious medicine
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