SLIDE 1
Hard Times on Sable Island: The Darby Controversy
Rebecca Wilson
Damnatio Memoriae
“After the deaths of persons deemed by the senate enemies of the state, measures to erase their memory might follow. Originally there was no set package, as the phrase implies, but a repertoire: images might be destroyed, and their display penalized, the name erased from inscriptions, and a man’s praenomen banned in his family.”