Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond
open access | peer reviewed
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a cura di
- Francesco Sironi - University of Milan - email
- Maurizio Viano - University of Turin - 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 Philosophy • Classical studies • Dance • Wisdom • Near Eastern languages and cultures • Myth • Sumerian • Royal legislation • Narrative irony • Audience • Episteme • Sophia • Babylonian Wisdom Literature • Epics • Periander • Gilgamesh • Cult Festivals • Proverbs • Egyptian medicine • Jotham’s Fable • Mesopotamian literature • Science • Heritage • Hittites • Wisdom traditions • Dialectics in Assyro-Babylonian texts • Tradition • Nēmequ • Greek medicine • Law • Scribal school • Wisdom Literature of the Eastern Mediterranean bas • Babylonian literature • Morality tale • Epistemology • Sumerian proverbs • Wisdom literature • Astronomy • Mesopotamia • Scholarly text compilation • Assyriology • Scribal education • Truth • Biblical studies • The Babylonian Theodicy • Falsehood • Ashurbanipal • Analogical reasoning • Hellenistic Uruk • Gorgo • Narrative Dances • Rational medicine • Kingship • Ancient Greek • Erra and Išum • The Epic of Gilgameš • Female advisors • Satire • The Book of Qohele • Homer • Dialogue and debate • Performance • Greek literature • Polycrates • Epic poetry • Tupšarrūtu • Hesiod • Magical medicine • Cuneiform world • Bull-Leaping • Folktale • Hellenistic Jerusalem • Herodotus • Babylonian Theodicy • Parody • Scientia • Poetry • Ancient Greece • Religious medicine • Scribalism
Thema codes NHC • DSBB • 1FB • 3CG
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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