An Historical Sketch of the Conceptions of Memory among the Ancients
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ContentsConceptions of memory before Aristotle -- Aristotle's conceptions of memory -- Conceptions of memory among the Stoics and Epicureans, and in Cicero and Quintilian -- Conceptions of Plotinus and St. Augustine -- Diseases of memory mentioned by ancient writers -- Ancient systems of mnemonics.Excerpt from Mnemosyne, Hesiod tells us, was the mother of the Muses. Without speculating as some have done about the reasons for this myth it is interesting as showing an appreciation of the fundamental nature of memory and some sort of crude introspective psychology dating back possibly to pre-hist...
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