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