The fasces is an Italian symbol that had its origin in the Etruscan civilization and was passed on to ancient Rome, where it symbolized a Roman king's power to punish his subjects, [1] and later, a magistrate's power and jurisdiction. The axe has its own separate and older origin.

2025年3月12日 · fasces, insignia of official authority in ancient Rome. The name derives from the plural form of the Latin fascis (“bundle”). The fasces was carried by the lictors , or attendants, and was characterized by an ax head projecting from a bundle of elm or birch rods about 5 feet (1.5 metres) long and tied together with a red strap; it ...

2016年5月8日 · The fasces were a bundle of rods and a single axe which were carried as a symbol of magisterial and priestly authority in ancient Rome. They featured prominently in important administrative ceremonies and public processions such as triumphs.

2023年7月16日 · In the first half of 1923, the Fascist-led government tasked a leading archaeologist with divining the most “authentic” form of the Roman fasces – not so much out of genuine academic curiosity, but surely to set a single official form as the basis for a …

2022年11月17日 · For an astounding two millennia—from the Etruscans of the seventh century bce, then through the Romans under all their forms of government, indeed down to the last Byzantine dynasty—political authorities used the device known as the “fasces” to induce respect as well as fear. This was a bundle of wooden rods and a single-bladed axe ...

2022年11月17日 · The ancient Romans in both the Republic (as far back as one can trace) and Empire made a familiar and highly effective spectacle out of bundling wooden rods and a single-bladed axe with leather straps into a “fasces.”

THE FASCES 123 impressive and peculiarly Roman. It vividly distinguished the commander in the field, and even gods such as Mars or Roma might be sculpted in it. 10 Fallen generals could be honorably cremated in the paludamentum (as was Brutus at Antony's command, quo honorius cremaretur, according to Val. Max. 5.

2022年11月17日 · Ancient tradition is unanimous that twelve attendants known as “lictors” each carried fasces, walking in procession before the old kings of Rome, to mark the king’s status as a holder of imperium (the full civil and military power) and with it, his capacity to inflict either corporal or capital punishment.

ancient Rome through the modern era in an in-depth history of one of Rome’. most enduring symbols of its power, the fasces. The fasces is a bundle of rods with an axe bound together by a leather cord. It was a visual reminder of the state’s power to inflict both corpora.

For an astounding two millennia—from the Etruscans of the seventh century bce, then through the Romans under all their forms of government, indeed down to the last Byzantine dynasty—political...