List of condemned Roman emperors
Damnatio memoriae was the ancient Roman practice of erasing the names of disgraced individuals from public memory. On monuments, the names of these emperors were erased by decree of the Senate:
- Caligula
- Nero
- Domitian
- Commodus
- Clodius Albinus
- Publius Septimius Geta
- Macrinus
- Diadumenian
- Elagabalus
- Alexander Severus
- Maximinus Thrax
- Maximus I
- Gordian III
- Philip the Arab
- Philip II (the Arab's son)
- Decius
- Herennius Etruscus (Decius' son)
- Hostilian (Decius' son)
- Aemilianus
- Gallienus
- Aurelian
- Probus
- Carus
- Carinus
- Numerian
- Diocletian
- Maximian
- Galerius
- Flavius Valerius Severus
- Maximinus Daia
- Maxentius
- Licinius
- Constantine II
- Constans I
- Magnentius
- Magnus Maximus
References
Sir John Edwin Sandys – Latin Epigraphy (1927).
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