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