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