39,327
edits
The Roman Empire: Difference between revisions
m
categories and general cleanup
(→Western Animation: clean up) |
m (categories and general cleanup) |
||
Line 76:
* The laurels and S.P.Q.R. - As seen at the top of the page, it stands for 'Senatus Populusque Romanus', the Senate and People of Rome.
* The fasces - An axe, handle thrust through a bundle of reeds or sticks, the fasces was a symbol of authority. Originally a republican symbol of strength in unity (one reed or stick breaks, a bundle doesn't). It was resurrected by the fascists, specifically [[Benito Mussolini]]. So not everything was ruined by Hitler.
** Not even Mussolini could ruin this one: the French and American republics, which intentionally attempted to recall Rome, used the fasces in their symbolism long before Mussolini. The French Fifth Republic still uses the fasces with an axe in its [
* The swastika - The symbol most indelibly associated with the Nazis (in the West), it is very ancient, going back to the neolithic, and global, having been found throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. It is related to the sun, as are most cross symbols.
| |||