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Author Flower, Harriet I

Title The art of forgetting : disgrace and oblivion in roman political culture / Harriet I. Flower
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource
Series Studies in the history of Greece and Rome
Studies in the history of Greece and Rome.
Contents Clementis' Hat: the Politics of Memory Sanctions and the Shape of Forgetting -- Part 1: The Roman Republic and Greek Precedents -- Did the Greeks Have Memory Santions? -- The Origins of Memory Sanctions in Roman Political Culture -- Punitive Memory Sanctions l: The Breakdown of the Republican Consensus -- Punitive Memory Sanctions ll: The Republic of Sulla -- Part 2: The Principate From Octavian to Antoninus Pius -- Memory Games: Disgrace and Rehabilitation in the Early Principate -- Public Sanctions against Women: A Julio-Cluadian Innovation -- The Memory of Nero, imperator scaenicus -- The Shadow of Domitian and the Limits of Disgrace -- Conclusion: Roman Memory Spaces
Summary Elite Romans periodically chose to limit or destroy the memory of a leading citizen who was deemed an unworthy member of the community. This text provides a chronological overview of the development of this Roman practice from archaic times into the second century CE
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Subject Memory -- Political aspects -- Rome -- History
Memory -- Social aspects -- Rome -- History
Punishment -- Rome -- History
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
Memory -- Political aspects
Memory -- Social aspects
Punishment
Damnatio memoriae
Politische Kultur
Damnatio memoriae.
Herinnering.
Oordeel.
Politieke aspecten.
Romeinse oudheid.
SUBJECT Rome -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115108
Subject Rome (Empire)
Römisches Reich
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0807877468
9780807877463
0807871885
9780807871881