I was never able to bring this paper together. It didn't help that I was on-call the last week before the final day of class. One-line summary: Memory as recollection of knowledge acquired before birth (Meno and Phaedo), memory as impressions on a wax tablet (Theaetetus), and the effect of writing on memory (Phaedrus). Plato on memory: Meno 81a–86b: Plato's famous doctrine of anamnesis, or recollection. Socrates argues that what we call learning is really recollecting knowled