How we misremember the past: stories of memory and its malfunctions
Alexander the Great at the Tomb of Achilles by Giovanni Paolo Pannini ca. 1730 (Source: Wikimedia Commons) When Alexander the Great visited ‘Achilles’ tomb’ near Ilion/Troy in the fourth century BCE and ordered it to be made more conspicuous in the landscape, with what confidence could he do so? When Pausanias identified for his readers
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