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Simonides of Ceos

Simonides

Greek lyric poet (c. 556-468 BC), credited as the inventor of the art of memory. The Scopas anecdote (Cic. De Or. 2.351-353) is the founding story of the loci-and-images mnemonic system.

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Mentioned in 3 works (8 total)

On the Orator rhetoric · 4 mentions
Cato the Elder, On Old Age philosophy · 1 mention
On Divination philosophy · 3 mentions

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