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