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Classical antecedents for modern metaphors for memory1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Jocelyn Penny Small
Affiliation:
Alexander Library, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903. jpsmall@gandaH.rutgers.edu

Abstract

Classical antiquity provides not just the storehouse metaphor, which postdates Plato, but also parts of the correspondence metaphor. In the fifth century B.C., Thucydides (1.22) considered the role of gist and accuracy in writing history, and Aristotle (Poetics 1451b, 1460b 8–11) offered an explanation. Finally, the Greek for truth (alêtheia) means “that which is not forgotten.”

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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