Damnatio memoriae

Abstract

Damnatio Memoriae is a Latin phrase that literally means conviction of memory. It was a practice of ancient Rome consisting of, as its name suggests, to condemn the memory of an enemy of the state after his death. Applied to remove a character map to uncomfortable and reminded all that the condemned images, monuments, inscriptions, and even came to the ban on his name. Many emperors were also affected by this practice. Something has happened in Spain with the Franco era.