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