Damnatio memoriae
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title:
Damnatio memoriae
text:
Damnatio memoriae is a modern Latin phrase meaning "condemnation of memory" or "damnation of memory", indicating that a person is to be excluded from official accounts. Depending on the extent, it can be a case of historical negationism. There are and have been many routes to damnatio memoriae, including the destruction of depictions, the removal of names from inscriptions and documents, and even large-scale rewritings of history. The term can be applied to other instances of official scrubbing.
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description:
Practice of excluding and removing details about a person from official records and accounts
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae
date created:
2002-03-14T12:44:58Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T00:16:21Z
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