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