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