Ancient Memory Culture and its History in Research. Damnatio Memoriae

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Philosophy - Philosophy of the Ancient World, grade: 1,0, University of Heidelberg (Philosophische Fakultat), language: English, abstract: This paper will give an insight into the practice of the so-called "e;damnatio memoriae"e;. Therefore, I would like to explain at the beginning the general handling of the inhabitants of the Roman Empire with thei...