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De Gruyter Limits of Exactitude in Greek, Roman, Byzantine Literature

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Explore how ancient and medieval authors grappled with the tension between exactitude and inexactitude in this scholarly volume from De Gruyter. Building on Italo Calvino's framework from Six Memos for the Next Millennium, this interdisciplinary collection of eighteen essays examines the definitions, pursuits, and inherent limits of exactitude across classical literature and textual transmission. The contributions span rhetoric, historiography, and the exact sciences, revealing how ancient writers strategically exploited ambiguities between precision and imprecision to achieve their rhetorical and philosophical goals. Essential reading for scholars of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine literature, literary theory, and the history of ideas, this book demonstrates how the concept of exactitude evolved across centuries of textual practice and cultural transmission.

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Contains eighteen interdisciplinary essays exploring exactitude in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine literary traditions and manuscript transmission.

Organised into thematic sections covering rhetoric, historiography, exact sciences, and related scholarly approaches to textual precision.

Engages with Calvino's theoretical framework whilst establishing new critical definitions and limitations of exactitude in classical contexts.

Addresses how ancient and medieval authors deliberately navigated the boundary between exactitude and inexactitude for rhetorical effect.

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14 October 2022
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