History and Silence: Purge and Rehabilitation of Memory in Late Antiquity

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HISTORY AND SILENCE PURGE AND REHAB I LITATION OF MEMORY I N LATE ANTIQUIT Y Charles W. Hedrick Jr. U N I V E R S I T Y O F T E X AS P R E S S , AU ST I N Copyright 䉷 2000 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2000 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to Permissions, University of Texas Press, P.O. Box 7819, Austin, TX 78713-7819. 嘷 ⬁ The paper used in this book meetstheminimum requirements of ansi/niso z39.48-1992 (r1997) (Permanence of Paper). LIBR ARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Hedrick, Charles W., 1956– History and silence : purge and rehabilitation of memory in late antiquity / by Charles W. Hedrick. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-292-73121-3 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Inscriptions, Latin—Italy—Rome. 2. Palimpsests —Italy—Rome. 3. Flavianus, Virius Nicomachus , ca. 334–394. 4. Forum of Trajan (Rome, Italy) 5. Memory—Social aspects— Italy—Rome—History. 6. Monuments— Italy—Rome—Conservation and restoration— History. 7. Elite (Social sciences)—Italy— Rome—Historiography. 8. Rome—Politics and government—284–476—Historiography. I. Title. cn535.h43 2000 937—dc21 99-29835 f ront is: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Lettere di giustificazione (1757) FOR MY FATHER THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...