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