FASCES

făsˈēz [Lat.,=bundles], ancient Roman symbol of the regal and later the magisterial authority. The fasces were cylindrical bundles of wooden rods, tied tightly together, from which an axe projected; they were borne by guards, called lictors, before praetors, consuls, proconsuls, dictators, and emperors. The fasces, which symbolize unity as well as power, have often been used as emblems, e.g., on the arms of the French republic and on American coins. Italian Fascism derived its name and its emblem from the fasces.

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A School Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities
Book by William Smith; Harper and Brothers, 1857
Subjects: Classical Dictionaries
FASCES. tween them; and in the fourth, the same, only with no crowns around the fasces. Fasces. The fasces appear to have been usually made of birch, but sometimes also of the twigs of the elm. They are said to have been derived from Vetulonia...
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The Praetorship in the Roman Republic
Book by T. Corey Brennan; Oxford University Press, 2000
Subjects: Praetors--Rome, Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C, Rome--Officials And Employees, Rome--Provinces--Administration
...for literary variation. 2.2.2 The Fasces of the Dictator The Romans attempted to...were attended by twelve lictors with the fasces . Yet in the city only one consul at a time was preceded by lictors bearing twelve fasces . The other would be preceded by the attendant...
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Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius, and the Didactic Tradition
Book by Monica R. Gale; Cambridge University Press, 2000
Subjects: Allusions In Literature, Didactic Poetry, Latin--History And Criticism, Intertextuality, Lucretius Carus, Titus--De Rerum Natura, Lucretius Carus, Titus--Influence, Philosophy, Ancient, In Literature, Rome--In Literature, Virgil--Georgica, Virgil--Knowledge--Literature, Virgil--Philosophy
...illum sc. the countryman non populi fasces, non purpura regum Xexit et infidos agitans...ostro. 2.495 8, 503 6 Neither the fasces of the people nor the purple robes of...authority. 55 The contemptuous tone of populi fasces the fasces of the people and res Romanae...
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Ovid and the Fasti: An Historical Study
Book by Geraldine Herbert-Brown; Clarendon Press, 1994
Subjects: Calendar--Rome, Didactic Poetry, Latin--History And Criticism, Festivals--Rome, Ovid--43 B.C.-17 Or 18 A.D--Fasti, Rites And Ceremonies--Rome, Rome--History--Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D--Historiography, Rome--Religious Life And Customs
...Imp. Caesar Augustu s - - - primum fasces sumpsit Hirtio et Panso co n sulibus . Imperator Caesar Augustus first assumed the fasces in the consulship of Hirtius and Pansa...VII idus Ianuar ias eo die Caesar primum fasces sumpsit. Supplicatio Iovi Sempiterno...
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"Un-American" Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era
Book by Frank Krutnik, Steve Neale, Brian Neve, Peter Stanfield; Rutgers University Press, 2007
Subjects: Blacklisting Of Entertainers--United States, Motion Pictures--Political Aspects--United States
...The claws of the Eagle are holding the fasces with the ax. Rays of carved lightning emanate from the fasces. It is worth noting here that Maltzs description...etymological root of fascism, namely the fasces. In ancient Rome, the fasces was a bundle...
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journal articles on: Fasces  - 31 results

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The Fourth Dimension and Futurism: a Politicized Space
Journal article by Mark Antliff; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 82, 2000
Subjects: Aesthetics, Art criticism, Art history, Consciousness
...to reunite the world in a single body fasces to oppose active energies to the inertia...threatens to suffocate all life."81 The fasces of La Demolizione included all those who...points out, Dinales journal used the term fasces, from which the word fascism derives...
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Persona and Power in Horace's First Book of Epistles
Journal article by Parshia Lee-Stecum; Antichthon, Vol. 43, 2009
Subjects: Poetry, Poets, Reading
...dedit hoc hodie, cras, si uolet, auferet, ut, si detulerit fasces indigno, detrahet idem. pone, meum est inquit: pono tristisque...take away tomorrow if it so desires. So, if it bestowed the fasces on someone unworthy, the same public snatches it from him...
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Commentary
Journal article by John Matthias; Chicago Review, Vol. 52, 2006
Subjects: Literary criticism, Poetry
...of arms and men who had come back again By whom the bundled fasces were restored... Biographically speaking, there is no Uncle...bullish an Imperialist as Churchill himself, and the "bundled fasces" resonate equally of Imperial Britain, Augustan Rome, Bismarcks...
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Chix Nix Bundle-O-Stix: A Feminist Critique of the Disaggregation of Property
Journal article by Jeanne L. Schroeder; Michigan Law Review, Vol. 93, 1994
Subjects: Law, Law Reviews--Michigan
...through the Symbolic. 44 See Schroeder, The Vestal and the Fasces , supra note 12; Schroeder, Virgin Territory , supra note...supra note 28, at 59- 67; Schroeder, The Vestal and the Fasces , supra note 12; and Schroeder, Virgin Territory , supra note...
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Two Juvenalian Satires by John Quincy Adams
Journal article by Irving N. Rothman; Early American Literature, Vol. 6, 1971
Subjects: American Literature--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775, American Literature--Revolutionary Period, 1775-1783
...eyes, That star bestows, at fickle Fortunes nod, The consuls fasces for the pedants rod; Or gives, as Fortunes angry doom has...teachers, and grants to some few, Adams among them, both the fasces and the rod. While we may never know Adams explicit reasons...
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magazine articles on: Fasces  - 13 results

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The Good Fight: The Case for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
Magazine article by Scott Tucker; The Humanist, Vol. 54, March 1994
Subjects: Capitalism--International aspects, Peaceful change (International relations)--Analysis, Socialism--International aspects
...After World War II, a torch of liberty replaced the Roman fasces on dimes, but the imperial Roman insignia of many rods bound...imperial "destiny." We cant really claim fascism descrated the fasces, as the Nazis did the more ancient and widespread swastika...
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Russia Remembers World War II
Magazine article by Stephen Goode; Insight on the News, Vol. 14, September 21, 1998
Subjects: National socialism and art--Exhibitions
...scoff at them for a moment, as does a metal model of the fasces knocked on its side and lying near the swastika-studded baton that belonged to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. (The fasces is the bundle of rods with a projecting ax blade that Italian...
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On My Way to the Colosseum ..
Magazine article by Mary Beard; The National Interest, July 2011
Subjects: Whispering City: Rome and its Histories (Nonfiction work)
...be deemed an urban eyesore; and the pretensions of Il Duce to be the new emperor Augustus, complete with laurel wreath and fasces in some elaborate fancy-dress spectacles, appear more than slightly ridiculous. Yet, it is commonly and rightly said...
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Power Dressing in Ancient Greece and Rome
Magazine article by Jeri Debrohun; History Today, Vol. 51, February 2001
Subjects: Civilization, Classical--History, Clothing and dress--Analysis, Historical sociology--Analysis, Manners and customs--Analysis, Personal appearance--History
...both men, as consuls, would have been adorned with the insignia of the states highest office, which included carrying the fasces, the bundle of rods symbolic of their magisterial power, and wearing the toga praetexta, with its characteristic purple border...
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History of the Army's Medal of Honor
Magazine article; Soldiers, Vol. 65, March 2010
Subjects: Armed forces, Awards & honors, Military personnel, United States
...stars represented tiie number of states in 1862. Minerva, personifying the United States, stood with left hand resting on fasces (set of rods bound in the form of a bundle which included an axe), and right hand holding a shield blazoned with the U...
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newspaper articles on: Fasces  - 4 results

 
 
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Forgotten Lincoln in District; Judiciary Square Statue Was First to Honor Leader
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 7, 2006
...hand rested on a cylindrical bundle of rods called a fasces. The fasces was a symbol of the ancient Roman Republic, before...Franklin D. Roosevelt dime had one on the back. The fasces is no longer used today, however. In 1922, when...
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Facile 'Fascist' Terminology
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 15, 2006
...symbol, the swastika, fascism had its symbol, the traditional fasces, a bundle of birch rods tied together with a red ribbon as...which covered every German indoor and outdoor space, the fasces werent used much and rarely seen, not much of a public competitor...
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Symbols of More Than Men
Newspaper article by Gary Tischler; The Washington Times, June 29, 1996
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, Washington, George
...and generosity, hope and forgiveness. Lincoln sits with that great greatcoat, and his hands and arms rest on Roman-style fasces; to some, the arms seem outstretched. The Lincoln Memorial is often called a temple - it even says so above his head - and...
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When in Rome. ...Massacre Your Opponents, Pillage, Get a Slave, Shower in Bulls' Blood. These Are All Gory Scenes of Real Roman Life Depicted in the BBC's Stunnning New Series. JULIAN CHAMPKIN Finds out How Faithfully the Empire Has Been Recreated
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 29, 2005
Subjects: Caesar, Julius, Massacres, Television programs
...lives again see anything quite so much like Julius Caesar working the crowd." Caesar would have been followed by men carrying fasces - bundles of sticks round a symbolic axe; Berlusconi was followed by men in dark glasses talking on mobiles. Caesar was balding...


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encyclopedia articles on: Fasces  - 2 results

 
 
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Fasces
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FASCES fas ez Lat.,=bundles, ancient Roman...and later the magisterial authority. The fasces were cylindrical bundles of wooden rods...proconsuls, dictators, and emperors. The fasces, which symbolize unity as well as power...
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Fascism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...g., to National Socialism in Germany and to the regime of Francisco Franco in Spain. The term is derived from the Latin fasces . Characteristics of Fascist Philosophy Fascism, especially in its early stages, is obliged to be antitheoretical and frankly...


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