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