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