The Art of Forgetting: Disgrace and Oblivion in Roman Political CultureElite Romans periodically chose to limit or destroy the memory of a leading citizen who was deemed an unworthy member of the community. Sanctions against memory could lead to the removal or mutilation of portraits and public inscriptions. Harriet Flower provides the first chronological overview of the development of this Roman practice--an instruction to forget--from archaic times into the second century A.D. Flower explores Roman memory sanctions against the background of Greek and Hellenistic cultural influence and in the context of the wider Mediterranean world. Combining literary texts, inscriptions, coins, and material evidence, this richly illustrated study contributes to a deeper understanding of Roman political culture. |
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Page xxxvii - Every child knew the photograph from posters, schoolbooks, and museums. Four years later Clementis was charged with treason and hanged. The propaganda section immediately airbrushed him out of history and, obviously, out of all the photographs as well. Ever since, Gottwald has stood on that balcony alone. Where Clementis once stood, there is only bare palace wall. All that remains of Clementis is the cap on Gottwald's head.
Page i - Once a thing is known it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten. And, in a way that bends time, so long as it is remembered, it will indicate the future" (see, for example, 5, 84, 191).
Page xxv - Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past/
Page xxxi - ... Liberators with bloodsoaked flags and the Aztecs' Plumed Serpent facing a crucified Christ, all encircled by the billowing smokestacks of the industrial age. So it is with my life, a multilayered and ever-changing fresco that only I can decipher, whose secret is mine alone. The mind selects, enhances, and betrays; happenings fade from memory; people forget one another and, in the end, all that remains is the journey of the soul, those rare moments of spiritual revelation.
Page xxiii - I am grateful to the Princeton University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences and to the J.
Page 322 - Nam neque caede vulgata statim creditum est, fuitque suspicio ab ipso Gaio famam caedis simulatam et emissam, ut eo pacto hominum erga se mentes deprehenderet ; neque coniurati...
Page xxxi - I can see no order to it, no clarity, purpose, or path, only a blind journey guided by instinct and detours caused by events beyond my control. There was no deliberation on my part, only good intentions and the faint sense of a greater design determining my steps. Until now, I have never shared my past; it is my innermost garden, a place not even my most intimate lover has glimpsed. Take it, Paula, perhaps it will be of some use to you, because I fear that yours no longer exists, lost somewhere during...
Page 302 - In his rebus, quas praeter numeratam pecuniam doti vir habet, dolum malum et culpam eum praestare oportere Servius ait. ea sententia Publii Mucii est: nam is in Licin[n]ia Gracchi uxore [statuit], quod res dotales in ea seditione, qua Gracchus occisus erat, perissent, ait, quia Gracchi culpa ea seditio facta esset, Licin[n]iae praestari oportere.
Page xxxvii - In February 1948, Communist leader Klement Gottwald stepped out on the balcony of a Baroque palace in Prague to address the hundreds of thousands of his fellow citizens packed into Old Town Square.
Page 336 - Idem ergo populus ille, aliquando scaenici imperatoris spectator et plausor, nunc in pantomimis quoque aversatur et damnat effeminatas artes et indecora saeculo studia. Ex quo manifestum est principum disciplinam capere etiam vulgus, cum rem, si ab uno fiat, severissimam fecerint omnes. Macte hac gravitatis gloria, Caesar, qua consecutus es ut, quod antea vis et imperium, nunc mores vocarentur.
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| Titre | The Art of Forgetting: Disgrace and Oblivion in Roman Political Culture Studies in the History of Greece and Rome |
| Auteur | Harriet I. Flower |
| Édition | illustrée |
| Éditeur | Univ of North Carolina Press, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0807877468, 9780807877463 |
| Longueur | 424 pages |
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