Notes January 13, 2012

• Epithets
• next week
• we will be divided into groups and group members will decide epithets for each other
• Jennifer Thornburg
• has all class members' blogs organized alphabetically
• Read each other's blogs!!
• Brianna
• will be the other note taker for the class
• The Oral Tradition
• repetitious and redundant
• Why use 1 word when you can use 10?
• Easier to remember sensory properties than just written
• Thus use Oral not Written
• Syllabus
• Read Moon Walking with Einstein (MWE) by Wednesday
• starts with Occasion of the Banquet: Simonides
• Art of Memory by Francis Yates
• academic book
• starts with a story like MWE
• Loci
• location
• latin
• use for memory
• memory works best with locations and images
• Memory Theater
• we will create our classroom into a memory theater or memory palace
• Etymology of cute
• bowlegged
• Mother of Muses
• mnemosyne: memory
• Assignment
• Read Chapter 5 of MWE by Wednesday