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