@book{2019:stphanie:representi,
title = {Representing the Wise. A Gendered Approach.: Proceedings of the 1st Melammu Workshop. Lille, 4-5 April 2016},
year = {2019},
note = {Der erste Workshop des Melammu-Projekts stellte sich die Frage, wie
Repräsentantinnen und Repräsentanten der Weisheit in der Antike
konzeptualisiert wurden und ob es einen klaren Unterschied zwischen
weiblicher und männlicher Weisheit gab. Der Workshop folgte der
Chronologie, von mesopotamischen und ägyptischen Quellen über
levantinische bis hin zu griechischen und römischen Zeugnissen. Er
gestattete eine umfangreiche Erörterung von Weisen, sowohl
göttlichen als menschlichen, wie sie in der Antike porträtiert
wurden. Die Beiträge förderten zahlreiche Spannungen zutage. Das
Wesen der Weisheit selbst, menschlich und göttlich, empirisch,
theoretisch, beizeiten auch abstrakt und schwer zu charakterisieren,
deutet auf die Problematik einer Definition. Daher kann die
Pluralität der Repräsentationen verstanden werden als Zeichen dieser
Schwierigkeit und Varietät. Mehr noch, die Gender-Frage erwies sich
als eng verbunden mit den Gesellschaften und deren Organisation.      
                                              The first of the
Melammu Workshops askes how female and male representatives of the
wise, female and male sages, were conceptualized in antiquity and
whether there was a clear difference between female and male wisdom.
The workshop followed a kind of historical chronology starting from
Mesopotamian and Egyptian sources, continuing West through the Levant
and ending with Greek and Roman documentation. It permitted a vast
exploration of sages, both divine and human, as they were portrayed in
antiquity. The papers brought to light several tensions among which
the question of gender was not the least. Indeed, the nature of wisdom
itself, human and divine, empirical, theoretical but also at times
abstract and difficult to outline, pointed to the difficulty of a
definition. Hence the plurality of representations might be
interpreted as a sign of this difficulty and variety. Moreover, the
gender question was found to be strongly related to the societies and
their organization as evidenced elsewhere in current research. Any
generalization or typology of the sages at this point could not be
drawn but a clear historical evolution toward masculine representation
of wisdom was evidenced. Certainly, this has to do with social change,
economic structures and the loci of power and authority. However, in
many regards, women appear as counterparts or homologues of men in
their quest for wisdom. In that sense, the workshop proved very
fruitful in displaying a large gallery of portraits and in bringing to
light differences according to social settings and sources but also
main trends of evolution through historical times.                    
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edition = {1},
publisher = {Zaphon},
address = {Münster},
series = {Melammu Workshops and Monographs},
volume = {1},
editor = {Stéphanie, Anthonioz and Sebastian, Fink}
}