History and Silence: Purge and Rehabilitation of Memory in Late Antiquity PDF
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HISTORY AND SILENCE HISTORY AND SILENCE PURGE AND REHABILITATION OF MEMORY IN LATE ANTIQUITY Charles W. Hedrick Jr. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS, AUSTIN Copyright(cid:1)2000bytheUniversityofTexasPress Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Firstedition,2000 Requestsforpermissiontoreproducematerial fromthisworkshouldbesenttoPermissions, UniversityofTexasPress,P.O.Box7819,Austin,TX 78713-7819. (cid:2)(cid:1) Thepaperusedinthisbookmeetstheminimum requirementsofansi/nisoz39.48-1992(r1997) (PermanenceofPaper). LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATIONDATA Hedrick,CharlesW.,1956– Historyandsilence:purgeandrehabilitationof memoryinlateantiquity/byCharlesW.Hedrick. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn0-292-73121-3(cloth:alk.paper) 1.Inscriptions,Latin—Italy—Rome. 2.Palimp- sests—Italy—Rome. 3.Flavianus,ViriusNico- machus,ca.334–394. 4.ForumofTrajan (Rome,Italy) 5.Memory—Socialaspects— Italy—Rome—History. 6.Monuments— Italy—Rome—Conservationandrestoration— History. 7.Elite(Socialsciences)—Italy— Rome—Historiography. 8.Rome—Politics andgovernment—284–476—Historiography. I.Title. cn535.h43 2000 937—dc21 99-29835 frontis: GiovanniBattistaPiranesi,Letteredi giustificazione(1757) FOR MY FATHER THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK CONTENTS ListofIllustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xxv chapter 1 A PALIMPSEST 1 chapter 2 CURSUS AND CAREER 6 chapter 3 UNSPEAKABLE PAGANISM? 37 chapter 4 REMEMBERING TO FORGET TheDamnatioMemoriae 89 chapter 5 SILENCE, TRUTH, AND DEATH TheCommemorativeFunctionofHistory 131 chapter 6 REHABILITATING THE TEXT ProofreadingandthePast 171 chapter 7 SILENCE AND AUTHORITY PoliticsandRehabilitation 214 appendix CONCERNING THE TEXT OF CIL 6.1783 247 Notes 259 ListofAbbreviations 297 SecondaryWorksCited 301 GeneralIndex 321 IndexofPassagesCited 331 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS frontis. GiovanniBattistaPiranesi,Letteredigiustificazione(1757)tav.8. 1.CIL6.1783. 2.Simulationanddissimulation. 3.Planoftheimperialfora.
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