Damn, what does it take to get burned out of the family portrait?
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2024
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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.