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