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