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Volume 36 | Miscellanea | Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond
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 Myth • Hellenistic Jerusalem • Gilgamesh • Dance • Mesopotamian literature • Episteme • Epic poetry • Epistemology • Tupšarrūtu • Performance • Periander • Wisdom • Ancient Greek • Scribal school • Assyriology • Science • Egyptian medicine • Ashurbanipal • The Babylonian Theodicy • Bull-Leaping • Philosophy • Biblical studies • Scribalism • Dialogue and debate • Narrative Dances • Proverbs • Mesopotamia • Poetry • Dialectics in Assyro-Babylonian texts • Royal legislation • Babylonian Wisdom Literature • The Book of Qohele • Sumerian proverbs • Greek literature • Jotham’s Fable • Erra and Išum • Hesiod • Wisdom literature • Morality tale • Law • Near Eastern languages and cultures • Epics • Herodotus • Cult Festivals • Astronomy • Scholarly text compilation • Audience • Parody • Rational medicine • Falsehood • Wisdom Literature of the Eastern Mediterranean bas • Analogical reasoning • Hellenistic Uruk • Sumerian • Gorgo • Ancient Greece • Hittites • Tradition • Nēmequ • Greek medicine • Cuneiform world • Magical medicine • The Epic of Gilgameš • Female advisors • Satire • Babylonian literature • Wisdom traditions • Classical studies • Heritage • Scribal education • Babylonian Theodicy • Homer • Scientia • Sophia • Religious medicine • Folktale • Kingship • Polycrates • Truth • Narrative irony
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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Section 1. Wisdom and Knowledge
Section 2. Sages and Practitioners
Section 3. Literature and Wisdom Traditions