The study deals with ChLA X 417, a papyrus from the Berlin collection, which preserves one of the two known examples of codicilli imperatoris. These codicilli were of central importance in appointing ...a high Roman official, such as a governor. Contrary to previous interpretations, it is argued that the codicilli could concern not only Laberius Maximus and Domitian, but also Vibius Maximus and Trajan. Vibius Maximus was probably never punished by damnatio memoriae.
Abstract
This paper, which is a work in progress and a continuation of previous articles that were published on the Roman concepts of
evocatio
and
devotio
, will explore a new approach: the juridical ...context and implications of these religious and magical rituals. After reminding briefly the traditional interpretation (religious prayers pronounced only in a context of war) and the results of our previous articles
1
(
evocatio
was not limited to military context, and
evocatio
and
devotio
included magical elements very similar to formulas of execration (
defixiones
), we will ask questions that seem to be innovative: on the one hand, “can we compare these prayers with juridical contracts?”, and on the other hand, “had these rituals juridical and political consequences?”, such as the loss of status of a person (in this case, the
devotio
of enemies) and the loss of status of a place/city (in the case of
evocatio
). Were these religious rituals a way of making possible the symbolical destruction of a territory and the transfer of a divinity's statue to Rome, and consequently a way of making possible the real destruction of this territory and justifying its conquest? To carry out this study, we will analyze different texts that mention
evocatio
and
devotio,
and we will contrast them with texts that refer to juridical concepts (such as
consecratio capitis et bonorum, exsecratio, bellum iustum,
and
damnatio memoriae
). We will also analyze the case of cities (Veii, Praeneste, Falerii Veteres, and Carthago) that probably lost their juridical and political status after a war and after religious rituals such as
evocatio
and
devotio
. It would not be the first time that religion was used for political reasons, to justify Roman imperialism.
U radu se analizira kip cara Augusta iz Nina (Aenona) s ogrnutim plaštem i frizurom tipa Prima Porta u kontekstu teze o preklesavanju iz izvorno Kaligulina portreta. Neslužbenu osudu (de facto ...damnatio memoriae) nad Kaligulinim likom dopustio je car Klaudije, te je uslijedio proces odstranjivanja službenih prikaza i intenzivna prerada njegovih kipova u klesarskim radionicama. Primjer u Enoni potvrda je prihvaćanja senatskih sankcija nad nepoćudnom carskom osobom, kao i iskaz visokog stupnja lojalnosti prema prvom rimskom caru.
How can it be, that only as much happens as fits into the newspaper the next day? (K. Valentin). Information of the past has to be organised, arranged and selected. The process of selection must be ...seen as the fundamental moment of making History. This book shows selection as creative act. With the richness of early medieval material it can be demonstrated that creative selection was omnipresent and took place even in unexpected text genres.
Neste artigo, discute-se como a damnatio memoriae imposta por D. Afonso V ao infante D. Pedro no contexto da Batalha de Alfarrobeira, em 1449, bem como a revogação de tal pena, em 1455, ...refletem-se nas crônicas de Gomes Eanes de Zurara. Demonstra-se que, no período em que vigorou a citada damnatio memoriae, Zurara escreveu, a mando do rei, suas duas primeiras obras: a Crónica da Tomada de Ceuta e a Crónica de Guiné, motivo pelo qual o infante D. Pedro, enquanto personagem, quando não é esquecido, é lembrado desfavoravelmente pelo cronista. Contudo, observa-se uma redenção mnemônica do infante D. Pedro nas duas últimas crônicas zurarianas, a saber, a Crónica do Conde D. Pedro de Meneses e a Crónica do Conde D. Duarte de Meneses, compostas após a reabilitação oficial da memória do ex-regente por parte do monarca.
How do small island ecologies commemorate their disappeared pasts? What are some of the place-making practices that shape the formation of small island collective memories? Through the analysis of ...five case studies of small island communities in a comparative framework, this editorial introduction to a special section of Island Studies Journal on 'Islands, history, decolonial memory' opens up the mnemonic and psychoanalytic challenges facing contemporary island societies and the invention of their social memories. The islands of Balliceaux, Ro, Saaremaa, St. Simon and Dongzhou present competing instances of how memory operates across cultures of remembrance and forgetting.
This article provides a viewpoint on historical, epigraphic and literary proofs that testify of a complex form of damnatio memoriae against Mark Antony, Octavian’s enemy, the Augustus to be. The very ...notion of damnatio memoriae, which consists of a condemnation of the memory of a given individual, raises issues regarding Mark Antony. The first part of this article discusses various elements to attempt to explore whether or not Mark Antony has actually been victim of this type of memory condemnation, orchestrated by the princeps. The second part examines poetical references to the character of Mark Antony in Vergil’s, Propertius’ and Horace’s works, which confirm the application of a political strategy of forgetting targeting the defeated enemy. Between said and unsaid, Mark Antony’s character is subject to a poetical stigmatization, sometimes focusing on its name itself, sometimes applied under allusive form, like a kind of infamia that reinforces and confirms the analysis performed in the first part of the article. One must remember that one must forget: this could be the most applicable saying when it comes to the study of the treatment of Mark Antony’s memory during the Augustan period.
Pričujoče kratko besedilo prvič prinaša razlago napisa Vergerijev, ki se je vse do nedavne obnove nahajal v koprski stolnici. Napis, ki ga je zakrivalo obzidano stopnišče na kor, je posvečen Aureliu ...Vergeriju, najstarejšemu bratu koprskega škofa in odpadnika Petra Pavla Vergerija. Zaradi odpadništva je Petra Pavla in njegovega brata Giovannija Battista zadel preklic spomina. Preklic spomina – damnatio memoriae je najbolj izstopajoča značilnost pričujočega napisa.
La questione della damnatio memoriae di Cornelio Gallo a seguito del processo, posta e discussa dai moderni nel secolo scorso, è stata ripresa in anni recenti con argomenti a volte nuovi che ...stimolano una riflessione accurata e un riesame dei diversi aspetti del problema.