Years ago, my Latin teacher made the whole class memorise the first 10 lines or so of the Aeneid. What made it a lot easier, apart from images and story, is that it's also a form of poetry with a distinct rhythm (in this case a hexameter) - the stresses on the first line for example are "*arma vir*umque can*o troi*ae qui pr*imus ab *oris". I have a hunch that there's a somatic trick using 🤸♀️RHYTHM - tapped out loud if need be - to help with memory too, that's probably also biologically special in a way. After all, that was also a part of many cultures' storytelling techniques.
Years ago, my Latin teacher made the whole class memorise the first 10 lines or so of the Aeneid. What made it a lot easier, apart from images and story, is that it's also a form of poetry with a distinct rhythm (in this case a hexameter) - the stresses on the first line for example are "*arma vir*umque can*o troi*ae qui pr*imus ab *oris". I have a hunch that there's a somatic trick using 🤸♀️RHYTHM - tapped out loud if need be - to help with memory too, that's probably also biologically special in a way. After all, that was also a part of many cultures' storytelling techniques.