#fasces

[surfingkaliyuga]

Stylised Art Deco relief of Themis, sculpted by Jan Raszka, on the facade of the District Court Building in Łódź. The building, constructed in 1930, was designed by Józef Kaban.

[illustratus]

Consul Manlius Torquatus Condemns his Son to Death by Jean-Simon Berthélemy

[c0k33z3ro]

who wants to talk 🤷‍♀️, im open to all convos, political or not, be respectful

[girlboybugthing]

Uhm... I don't think my teacher will notice?

[caeruleumvexillum]

Octavian sharing his fasces with Agrippa in 28 reminds me of Lucullus sharing the laurels of his fasces with Pompeius in 66, but with a different connotation.

Pompeius command in the East is a controversial override of Lucullus’s efforts, granted by the lex Manilia. The laurel-sharing episode shows a power struggle masked as cooperation. The lictors' gesture is full of irony: it acknowledges Pompey’s new command, but also symbolically attributes the freshness and legitimacy of that command to Lucullus’s victories.

(Plut. Luc. 36.3 )

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Octavian, sharing his lictors and his fasces with Agrippa, preserved tradition and the semblance of consular collegiality. But it becomes a shallow symbol (Octavian was on his 6th consulship by then) of shared power for everyone except Agrippa, who, over time, gets elevated to a quasi-equal status.

(Dio 53.1)

What I wanted to say is that both moments marked for their protagonists a symbolic act with the difference that one was a, albeit involuntarily, submission and the other the start of a gradual elevation.

[aitiuilghrain]

Aether and energy weapons.

Whats a Fasces? Whats a Vajra? ;)

[thecrankyprofessor]

Most people don't need to be able to explain what FASCES really are. I'm pleased with this photograph from the top of the Gloriette at Schloss Schoenbrunn - the axe inside the bundle of rods has seldom been clearer! Capital and Corporal Punishment, Roman magistrates, etc, etc.

The view FROM the Gloriette of the Palace.

[1five1two]

Image of the Fasces. Teatro di Marcello, Rome, Italy.