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

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

Copyright © 2024 Francesco Sironi, Maurizio Viano. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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