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Volume 36 | Miscellanea | Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond

Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond

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

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

Copyright © 2024 Francesco Sironi, Maurizio Viano. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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