Talk:Matthew Meredith/@comment-90.186.211.13-20190710130510

Herostratus was a 4th-century BC Greek arsonist, who sought notoriety by destroying the second Temple of Artemis in Ephesus. His acts prompted the creation of a damnatio memoriae law forbidding anyone to mention his name, orally or in writing.

By exterminating any mention of him, they immortalized him and more than 2400 years later we speak of him.