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The art of forgetting : disgrace and oblivion in Roman political culture
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The art of forgetting : disgrace and oblivion in Roman political culture

Author: Harriet I Flower
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006.
Series: Studies in the history of Greece and Rome
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Elite Romans periodically chose to limit or destroy the memory of a leading citizen who was deemed an unworthy member of the community. Sanctions against memory could lead to the removal or multilation of portraits and public inscriptions.Harriet Flower provides the first chronological overview of the development of this Roman practice - an instruction to forget - from archaic times into the second century A.D."  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Harriet I Flower
ISBN: 9780807830635 0807830631
OCLC Number: 69594038
Description: xxiv, 400 p. : ill. , maps ; 25 cm.
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
Series Title: Studies in the history of Greece and Rome
Responsibility: Harriet I. Flower.
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"Elite Romans periodically chose to limit or destroy the memory of a leading citizen who was deemed an unworthy member of the community. Sanctions against memory could lead to the removal or multilation of portraits and public inscriptions.Harriet Flower provides the first chronological overview of the development of this Roman practice - an instruction to forget - from archaic times into the second century A.D." From the bookjacket.

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