Hard Times on Sable Island: The Darby Controversy Rebecca Wilson - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Hard Times on Sable Island: The Darby Controversy Rebecca Wilson

Damnatio Memoriae “After the deaths of persons deemed by the senate enemies of the state, measures to erase their memory might follow. Originally there was no set package, as the phrase implies, but a repertoire: images might be destroyed, and their display penalized, the name erased from inscriptions, and a man’s praenomen banned in his family.”