Jocelyn Penny Small. Wax tablets of the mind: Cognitive studies of memory and literacy in Classical antiquity
London & New York: Routledge, 1997. xviii, 377 pp. Hb. $85.00

Reviewed by

Hilary Mackie | Rice University

Published online: 26 September 2000

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