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