Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond
open access | peer reviewed
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a cura di
- 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 Religious medicine • Hesiod • Scribalism • Bull-Leaping • Gilgamesh • Tradition • Babylonian Theodicy • Narrative Dances • Scientia • Ancient Greek • Kingship • Narrative irony • Scribal education • Science • Scholarly text compilation • Hittites • Mesopotamian literature • Classical studies • Epistemology • Hellenistic Uruk • Egyptian medicine • Sumerian • Epic poetry • The Book of Qohele • Wisdom Literature of the Eastern Mediterranean bas • Erra and Išum • Gorgo • Herodotus • Sumerian proverbs • Wisdom traditions • Scribal school • Audience • Law • Truth • Heritage • Poetry • Polycrates • Ancient Greece • Epics • Performance • Falsehood • Myth • Biblical studies • Near Eastern languages and cultures • Satire • Babylonian literature • The Epic of Gilgameš • Periander • Philosophy • Cuneiform world • Rational medicine • Assyriology • Nēmequ • Mesopotamia • Parody • Homer • Sophia • Morality tale • Dialectics in Assyro-Babylonian texts • Wisdom literature • Proverbs • Folktale • Cult Festivals • Episteme • Hellenistic Jerusalem • Female advisors • Wisdom • Greek literature • Royal legislation • Babylonian Wisdom Literature • Jotham’s Fable • Greek medicine • Astronomy • Ashurbanipal • The Babylonian Theodicy • Dance • Dialogue and debate • Tupšarrūtu • Analogical reasoning • Magical medicine
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 | Pubblicato 09 Luglio 2024 | Lingua en
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