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