Series | Antiquity Studies
Volume 36 | Edited book | Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond
Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond
open access | peer reviewed-
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 Gorgo • Wisdom literature • Biblical studies • The Book of Qohele • Bull-Leaping • Truth • Episteme • Cuneiform world • Erra and Išum • Scribal school • Herodotus • Tupšarrūtu • Tradition • Egyptian medicine • Ancient Greece • Rational medicine • Performance • Hesiod • Periander • Satire • Sophia • Religious medicine • The Epic of Gilgameš • Science • Epistemology • Narrative Dances • Nēmequ • Ancient Greek • Sumerian • Mesopotamian literature • Royal legislation • Near Eastern languages and cultures • Assyriology • Hittites • Wisdom Literature of the Eastern Mediterranean bas • Sumerian proverbs • Wisdom • Proverbs • Audience • Dance • Classical studies • Epic poetry • Falsehood • Dialectics in Assyro-Babylonian texts • Analogical reasoning • Babylonian Theodicy • Magical medicine • Mesopotamia • Philosophy • Law • Myth • Babylonian literature • Polycrates • Scientia • Female advisors • Gilgamesh • Astronomy • Epics • Wisdom traditions • Hellenistic Uruk • Scholarly text compilation • Greek literature • Homer • Ashurbanipal • Poetry • Cult Festivals • Heritage • Jotham’s Fable • Kingship • Narrative irony • Greek medicine • Babylonian Wisdom Literature • Scribal education • Scribalism • The Babylonian Theodicy • Parody • Morality tale • Dialogue and debate • Folktale • Hellenistic Jerusalem
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 | Published July 9, 2024 | Language en
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