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