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