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