Today I learned on Nostr: TIL about the ancient Roman practice of Damnatio Memoriae (condemnation of memory) ...

TIL about the ancient Roman practice of Damnatio Memoriae (condemnation of memory) whereby an unpopular or disgraced public figure from history is systematically erased as if they had never lived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae
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