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 Scribal school • Falsehood • Erra and Išum • Magical medicine • Folktale • Wisdom Literature of the Eastern Mediterranean bas • Royal legislation • Narrative irony • Proverbs • Sophia • Mesopotamia • Truth • Cuneiform world • Polycrates • Tradition • Nēmequ • Performance • The Babylonian Theodicy • Philosophy • Scholarly text compilation • Religious medicine • Wisdom • Classical studies • Law • Ancient Greece • Scribal education • Egyptian medicine • Greek medicine • Poetry • Wisdom literature • Dialogue and debate • Hesiod • Jotham’s Fable • Cult Festivals • Babylonian literature • Epics • Heritage • Science • Hellenistic Uruk • Scientia • Assyriology • Periander • Wisdom traditions • Myth • Kingship • Sumerian proverbs • Epic poetry • Biblical studies • Ashurbanipal • Mesopotamian literature • Episteme • Tupšarrūtu • Sumerian • Narrative Dances • Ancient Greek • Female advisors • Epistemology • Near Eastern languages and cultures • Babylonian Wisdom Literature • Astronomy • Bull-Leaping • The Book of Qohele • Herodotus • Dialectics in Assyro-Babylonian texts • Gilgamesh • Greek literature • Homer • Rational medicine • Hittites • Scribalism • Parody • Dance • Gorgo • Babylonian Theodicy • Audience • Hellenistic Jerusalem • Satire • Morality tale • Analogical reasoning • The Epic of Gilgameš
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
Sottoserie Studi orientali e-ISSN 2610-9336 ISSN 2610-881X
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