L'abolitio memoriae à Rome et dans le monde romain

As a result of a research program dedicated to the condemnation of memory in Roman antiquity, which began in the 2000s and is part of a rapidly evolving field of study, this collective volume offers an original synthesis based on an exhaustive examination of the available sources (epigraphic, iconographic, literary and legal). It includes the work of researchers associated with the program and European specialists and develops a series of methodological reflections, case studies and historiographical perspectives on a specific procedure of the Roman world, redefined here as abolitio memoriae, after having been described as damnatio memoriae from 1936 onwards, an expression subsequently used for all periods of history. It thus allows us to complete our approach to the collective memory in Rome and its vectors of diffusion of an outstanding political communication (from public displays to private spaces).