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Comment by bananaflag

5 days ago

And they were right. Ars memoriae is much less prevalent in the age of mass printed books.

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yread  4 days ago

Absolutely. Massive stories were passed on for thousands of year by word of mouth only - all kinds of creation myths. Even Odyssey was oral only for like 300 years, 15 generations!

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