Mnemotechnics and Virgil: the art of memory and remembering

Cicero, Quintilian and the anonymous author of the ad Herennium each describe the art and practice of using an artificial memory system to help aid remembrance. Each of the authors’ respective treatises offers an exploration of how both loci (places) and imagines (images) were used to facilitate re...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scarth, Elizabeth-Anne Louise
Other Authors: Shrimpton, Gordon S.
Language:English
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Published: 2007
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1828/235