Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond
open access | peer reviewed
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edited by
- Francesco Sironi - University of Milan - email
- Maurizio Viano - University of Turin - 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 • Wisdom Literature of the Eastern Mediterranean bas • Religious medicine • Babylonian literature • Scientia • Falsehood • Scribal school • Poetry • Wisdom literature • Scribal education • Biblical studies • The Epic of Gilgameš • Ashurbanipal • Greek literature • Ancient Greek • Folktale • Periander • Audience • Female advisors • Truth • Proverbs • Epics • Gilgamesh • Babylonian Theodicy • Tradition • Homer • Greek medicine • Mesopotamian literature • Hesiod • Sophia • Bull-Leaping • Wisdom traditions • Dance • Ancient Greece • Kingship • Epistemology • Assyriology • Hellenistic Jerusalem • Philosophy • Tupšarrūtu • Rational medicine • Royal legislation • Sumerian proverbs • Polycrates • Law • Classical studies • Cuneiform world • The Book of Qohele • Cult Festivals • Performance • Dialectics in Assyro-Babylonian texts • Episteme • Herodotus • Magical medicine • Hellenistic Uruk • Morality tale • Wisdom • Narrative irony • Satire • Epic poetry • Gorgo • Astronomy • Near Eastern languages and cultures • Scribalism • Hittites • Science • Nēmequ • Scholarly text compilation • Analogical reasoning • Jotham’s Fable • Sumerian • Erra and Išum • Heritage • Myth • Narrative Dances • Egyptian medicine • The Babylonian Theodicy • Dialogue and debate • Babylonian Wisdom Literature • Mesopotamia
Thema codes NHC • DSBB • 1FB • 3CG
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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