latintutorial | Damnatio Memoriae, or How to Erase Someone from History @latintutorial | Uploaded March 2015 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
How do you remove the memory of a particularly bad emperor from the history books? Or what if your brother is just so annoying that you can't stand the sight of him anymore, and don't want to share power? You perform a damnatio memoriae, erase all inscriptions, destroy all public images, and pretend as if he never existed.