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