This thesis attempts to answer why statues of disgraced individuals in antiquity were not completely destroyed, given prevalent material reuse and the fact that a multitude of these images harboring clear signs of deliberate mutilation remains extant. Statues not melted down or reused were left with the intention that they would exhibit their humiliation to the publica transference of behavior established inside the amphitheater where criminals were executed in front of the general populace. This thesis asserts that the arena and public judicial executions in these facilities led to the mistreatment of statues outside of the amphitheater both as it pertained to the damnatio memoriae of prominent individuals and later the mutilation of non-Christian statues by Christians in the late antique period.