Cicero, Quintilian and the anonymous author of the ad Herennium
each describe the art and practice of using an artificial memory
system to help aid remembrance. Each of the authors' respective
treatises offers an exploration of how both loci (places) and
imagines (images) were used to facilitate remembrance of both res
(things) and verba (words). The methods delineated by each author
provide valuable insight into the visual process, used by educated
Romans to retrieve and recall information stored in their memories.
By understanding how remembering and recollection were inherently
important to the Romans the modern reader can apprehend how Virgil,
as a member of the Roman elite, either consciously or
subconsciously, would portray his characters as being familiar not
only with the system of artificial memory, but also with the Roman
process of using different spaces and places to stimulate
remembrance. This book looks at the rhetoricians' discussions of
the art of memory and posits that Virgil uses the artificial memory
system features of sequential order, discriminability, and
distinctiveness when describes the way his characters look at
various images in the Aeneid.
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