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Description edit
Wax Tablets of the Mind explores the relationship between literacy, orality and memory in classical antiquity, not only from the point of view of antiquity, but also from that of modern cognitive psychology. Jocelyn Penny Small examines how ancient techniques for improving memory continued... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Cicero: Add a description of this character.
- Pliny
- Aristotle
- Quintilian
- Atticus
- Socrates
- Vergil
- Lucian
- Aeneas
- John Dean
- Varro
- Horace
- Julius Caesar
- Simonides
- Alcibiades
- Claudius
- Dionysius
- Skeat
- Vitruvius
- Baddeley
- Donald Norman
- Aristides
- Ulric Neisser
- Luria
- Phaedrus
- Alexander
- Athenaeus
- Callimachus
- Livy
- Lucullus
- Linda
Setting & Locations edit
- Rome
- Seneca
- Athens
- Alexandria
- Greece
- Iliad
- Pompeii
- Middle Ages
- Euripides
- Aeneid
- Egypt
- Republic
- Herculaneum
- Halicarnassus
- Tusculum
First Sentence edit
We live in a world of visible words. Even if we can't read them, even if we don't seek them out, we are, nevertheless, constantly bombarded by them.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jocelyn Penny Small (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 153.120938
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