Historical Artifacts

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Wooden tondo of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus and his family (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by PugJesus to c/historyartifacts

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[–] Beastlygr 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Damn, what does it take to get burned out of the family portrait?

[–] PugJesus 4 points 3 months ago

He (Geta) and his brother (Caracalla, the remaining child - not a nice fellow) were not friends, and constantly tried to assassinate one another when they were older. Caracalla eventually succeeded, and after doing so, passed damnatio memoriae, a modern term we use for the total erasure or defacement of all symbols of a person that Rome sometimes engaged in. Coins with Geta's face were reminted or disfigured, statues torn down - and paintings, like this, even of Geta as a child, selectively edited.