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Damnatio memoriae is a modern Latin phrase meaning "condemnation of memory", indicating that a person is to be excluded from official accounts. Depending on the extent, it can be a case of historical negationism. There are and have been many routes to , includi ...
'' was the ancient Roman practice of erasing the names of disgraced individuals from public memory. The emperors listed below were erased from monuments by decree of the
Roman Senate The Roman Senate ( la, Senātus Rōmānus) was a governing and advisory assembly in ancient Rome. It was one of the most enduring institutions in Roman history, being established in the first days of the city of Rome (traditionally founded in ...
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List of Roman usurpers The following is a list of usurpers in the Roman Empire. For an overview of the problem and consequences of usurpation, see Roman usurpers. In the Eastern Roman Empire (395–1453), rebellion and usurpation were so notoriously frequent (in the vis ...
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List of Roman emperors The Roman emperors were the rulers of the Roman Empire from the granting of the name and title ''Augustus'' to Octavian by the Roman Senate in 27 BC onward. Augustus maintained a facade of Republican rule, rejecting monarchical titles but callin ...
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List of Roman and Byzantine empresses This is a list of Roman and Byzantine empresses. A Roman empress was a woman who was the wife of a Roman emperor, the ruler of the Roman Empire. The Romans had no single term for the position: Latin and Greek titles such as '' augusta'' (Gree ...
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List of Augustae (; plural ''Augustae''; el, αὐγούστα) was a Roman imperial honorific title given to empresses and honoured women of the imperial families. It was the feminine form of ''Augustus''. In the third century, ''Augustae'' could also rec ...


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* Sir John Edwin Sandys – Latin Epigraphy (1927)

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