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Episode CXLIII - Damnatio Memoriae
If an emperor has been disappointing, cruel, tyrannical, or just related to the wrong person he is at risk of being damned, erased, have his likenesses destroyed and his name stricken from the records. The process of danmatio memoraie was intended to be a permanent judgement, and the final vengeance of an angry Rome.
Guest:
Associate Professor Rhiannon Evans (Classics and Ancient History, La Trobe University)
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If an emperor has been disappointing, cruel, tyrannical, or just related to the wrong person he is at risk of being damned, erased, have his likenesses destroyed and his name stricken from the records. The process of danmatio memoraie was intended to be a permanent judgement, and the final vengeance of an angry Rome.
Guest:
Associate Professor Rhiannon Evans (Classics and Ancient History, La Trobe University)
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