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