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

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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