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