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