Example sentences (11)
After Ay's death, Horemheb usurped the throne and instigated a campaign of damnatio memoriae against him.
Antony's honours were revoked and his statues removed ( damnatio memoriae ).
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.
Geta's face has been erased, because of the damnatio memoriae ordered by his brother.
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.
Historians sometimes use the phrase de facto damnatio memoriae when the condemnation is not official.
In Latin, the term damnatio memoriae was not used by the ancient Romans.
Lives, "Tiberius", 75. Suetonius has the populace wish Tiberius's body to be thrown in the Tiber, or left unburied, or "dragged with the hook", as a form of posthumous damnatio.
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 ).
The sense of the expression damnatio memoriae and of the sanction is to cancel every trace of the person from the life of Rome, as if he or she had never existed, in order to preserve the honour of the city.
The term does not generally encompass the specific destruction of images of a ruler after his death or overthrow ( damnatio memoriae ).