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