memoriae
Phrases with the word
Examples
Antony's honours were revoked and his statues removed ( damnatio memoriae ).
After Ay's death, Horemheb usurped the throne and instigated a campaign of damnatio memoriae against him.
Because there is an economic incentive to seize property and rework statues, historians and archaeologists have had difficulty determining when official damnatio memoriae actually took place, although it seems to have been quite rare.
Grainger (2003), p. 49 Domitian and, over a century later, Publius Septimius Geta were the only emperors known to have officially received a damnatio memoriae, though others may have received de facto ones.
Foundation remains of stone slab- or gable-shrines, or the cella memoriae of Mediterranean origin, may sometimes have been misunderstood in an earlier era of scholarship as a kistvaen, and the subject is complicated by this "woolly nomenclature."
Modern render * More modern examples of damnatio memoriae include the removal of portraits, books, editing people out of pictures, and any other traces of Joseph Stalin 's opponents during the Great Purge (for example, in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia ).