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