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\u201cIt simply was not possible physically for ancient historians with their work methods to dissect in memory contradictory variants into separate elements in order to produce a single, more logical version.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n

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\u2014 Jocelyn Penny Small, Wax Tablets of the Mind: Cognitive Studies of Memory and Literacy in Classical Antiquity<\/a>\"\"<\/em> (New York: Routledge, 1997) p.185.<\/div>\n
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