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