ON Quintilian’s lack of interest in ‘artificial memory’: “Has Roman society moved on into greater sophistication in which some intense, archaic, almost magical, immediate association of memory with images has been lost? Or is the difference a temperamental one? Would the artificial memory not work for Quintilian because he lacked the acute visual perceptions necessary for visual memorisation?” (Francis Yates, The Art of Memory, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 26)
