This ancient mnemonic device was used by orators in Greece and Rome, and is still a trade secret of modern memory-contest champions.
The French system, created concurrently with the Greek and Roman revivals, was based on the concept of legislatures addressed by orators, and its environment was that of an antique theatre.
He regards it as an artificial type of reasoning, unfit to be employed by orators since it is does not reflect the natural way of speaking and arguing.
The method of loci was originally mainly used by orators to remember the points to be made in a speech, in their proper order, although related imagery based techniques would later come to be used for other purposes, such as spiritual exercises.
Supposedly, this was the origin of the mnemonic technique known as the method of loci, described by Roman rhetoricians such as Cicero and Quintilian (c.35-c.95 c.35-c.95d widely employed, in various forms, by orators and others from C.E .icand through medieval, and up until early modern times.
When accused of blasphemy (a capital charge), she was defended by the orator Hyperides.
In Western Samoa the drive for political independence began in 1908 with the Mau a Pule, a movement led by the orator chief Lauaki Namulau'ulu.
The feeling of well-being that pervaded the empire under Antoninus is reflected in the celebrated panegyric by the orator Aelius Aristides in 143 144.
It features a room full of huge numbers of invisible people a few years after the Holocaust, reveals the final message – delivered by an orator in military dress – to be gibberish, and ends in suicide.
The Exedra of Herodes Atticus is a large, lavishly decorated fountain, on an apsidal (semicircular) plan; erected by the orator Herodes Atticus in the name of his wife Regilla, it stored drinking water brought into Olympia by an aqueduct 2 miles (3.2 km) long.
