HFM 017 | How to Memorize Like Cicero: Why Ancients Could Memorize the Phone Book

In this episode of the History in Five Minutes Podcast we look at the lost art of memorization. Boys in ancient Greece memorized Homer’s The Odyssey and the Iliad, medieval monks committed dozens of sermons to memory, and Augustine could fire off Cicero without breaking a sweat. Were all people in the ancient world like Dustin Hoffman’s Rain Man, or did they make use of lost techniques?

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