This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ... HISTOKY OF MNEMONICS. The Greek poet, Simonides (b.c. 470), is generally believed to be the inventor of Mnemonics. His discovery of the art is thus related by Cicero: --"A man named Skopas, at Kranon, in Thessalia, once gave a grand dinner in honour of a victorious gladiator. Amongst the guests was the poet ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ... HISTOKY OF MNEMONICS. The Greek poet, Simonides (b.c. 470), is generally believed to be the inventor of Mnemonics. His discovery of the art is thus related by Cicero: --"A man named Skopas, at Kranon, in Thessalia, once gave a grand dinner in honour of a victorious gladiator. Amongst the guests was the poet Simonides, who, during the repast, recited some verses he had composed in honour of the hero of the feast. After his recitation, he was called outside, and had scarcely left the room, when the ceiling fell in, crushing Skopas and all his guests. When the relatives of the killed came to bury the remains, they found them so smashed and disfigured, that they could not distinguish one body from another. It happened, however, that Simonides had observed the place which each person had occupied; and on looking at the several places, he was able to identify all the bodies. This led him to believe that nothing could better assist the memory than to retain in the mind certain fixed places, and therein to deposit, with the assistance of the imagination, whatever we intend to keep in our memory." Though Simonides seems to have formed a complete artificial system on this principle, and even to have taught his system, no particulars have come down to us, either about his own system, or about those of other writers on the subject among the Greeks. But the Romans have left detailed reports on Mnemonics, which undoubtedly were taken from Greek sources. The most remarkable of these are to be found in "Rhetor. ad Herrenium," iii., 16--24, in "Cicero de Oratore," lib. ii., cap. 88, "Quintilianus Instit. Orat.," hb. xi., cap. 2. The following passage out of the very minute treatise of Quintilian will give a correct idea of the Mnemonics of the ancients: --"This is...
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