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