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

Title
The art of forgetting : disgrace & oblivion in Roman political culture / Harriet I. Flower.
Author
Flower, Harriet I.
Publication
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Description
xxiv, 400 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Studies in the history of Greece and Rome
Uniform Title
Studies in the history of Greece and Rome.
Alternative Title
Art of forgetting : disgrace and oblivion in Roman political culture
Subject
  • Memory > History. > Rome
  • Punishment > Rome > History
  • Rome > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-389) and index.
Contents
Ch. I. Clementis' hat : the politics of memory sanctions and the shape of forgetting -- Pt. I. The Roman Republic and Greek precedents -- Ch. II. Did the Greeks have memory sanctions? -- Ch. III. The origins of memory sanctions in Roman political culture -- Ch. IV. Punitive memory sanctions I : the breakdown of the republican consensus -- Ch. V. Punitive memory sanctions II : the Republic of Sulla -- Pt. II. The principate from Octavian to Antoninus Pius -- Ch. VI. Memory games : disgrace and rehabilitation in the early principate -- Ch. VII. Public sanctions against women : a Julio-Claudian innovation -- Ch. VIII. The memory of Nero, imperator scaenicus -- Ch. IX. The shadow of Domitian and the limits of disgrace -- Ch. X. Conclusion : Roman memory spaces.
ISBN
  • 0807830631 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780807830635 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2006017447
  • 9780807830635
OCLC
  • OCM69594038
  • 69594038
  • SCSB-14342516
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries