Editing Damnatio memoriae (section)

=== Ancient Greece ===
[[File:Honours for Phaedrus of Sphettus (IG II3 1 985 = IG II2 681) part 2.jpg|thumb|upright=0.65|Part of an honorific decree for [[Phaedrus of Sphettus]], passed in 259/8 BC. The lines mentioning Phaedrus' interactions with the Antigonids were chiselled out as part of the ''damnatio memoriae'' of 200 BC.]]

The practice was known in Ancient Greece.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Callataÿ |first=François De |author-link=François de Callataÿ |title=Celebrity, Fame, and Infamy in the Hellenistic World |date=18 May 2020 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=978-1-4875-3178-2 |pages=90–110 |language=en |chapter=4. Remelted or Overstruck: Cases of Monetary Damnatio Memoriae in Hellenistic Times? |doi=10.3138/9781487531782-008 |chapter-url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.3138/9781487531782-008/html |s2cid=234432435}}</ref> The [[Ancient Athens|Athenians]] frequently destroyed inscriptions which referred to individuals or events that they no longer wished to commemorate.{{sfn|Low|2020|pp=239-243}} After [[Timotheus (general)|Timotheus]] was convicted of treason and removed from his post as general in 373{{nbs}}BC, all references to him as a general were deleted from the previous year's naval catalogue.{{sfn|Low|2020|p=246}} The most complete example is their systematic removal of all references to the [[Antigonids]] from inscriptions in their city, in 200{{nbs}}BC when they were besieged by the Antigonid king [[Philip V of Macedon]] during the [[Second Macedonian War]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Byrne |first=S. G. |title=Philathenaios : studies in honour of Michael J. Osborne |date=2010 |publisher=Hellēnikē Epigraphikē Hetaireia |isbn=9789609929707 |editor-last=Tamis |editor-first=A. |location=Athēnai |pages=157–177 |chapter=The Athenian damnatio memoriae of the Antigonids in 200 B.C. |editor-last2=Mackie |editor-first2=C.J. |editor-last3=Byrne |editor-first3=S. G.}}</ref> One decree praising [[Demetrius Poliorcetes]] (Philip V's great-grandfather) was smashed and thrown down a well.{{sfn|Low|2020|p=240}}

At [[Delphi]], an honorific inscription erected between 337 and 327 BC for [[Aristotle]] and his nephew [[Callisthenes]], two philosophers who were closely associated with the [[Ancient Macedon|Macedonians]], were smashed and thrown in a well after the death of [[Alexander the Great|Alexander of Macedon]] in 323{{nbs}}BC.{{sfn|Low|2020|p=240}}