Memory Arts

  Please allow 10 working days to process before shipping   Garment Dyed - Cobalt Long SleeveMade in USA - 100% USA Cotton Memory PalaceFrances Yates’s The Art of Memory begins, like all classical treatises on the art, with the same story. One night the poet Simonides was invited to dine at the house of the famous boxer Scopas. Halfway through dinner, Simonides was summoned outside and, as he stepped through the door, the hall collapsed behind him. So complete was the wreckage that no one could identify the bodies of those who had died inside. No one, that is, except for Simonides, who, having committed the place of every guest at the table to his memory, was able to name the victims by recalling where they had been seated, and was thus able to reunite grieving relatives with the remains of their loved ones. Simonides, Yates tells us, was credited by all subsequent classical writers on the subject with the invention of the art of memory, which has at its heart a very simple princip