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Post by Publius Valerius Argentum on Aug 10, 2011 22:03:13 GMT 2
As standardised national flags are a bit of a modern conception, ancient Rome cannot lend us a flag to use for out nation.
Therefore I will start a flag competition. Post here with your entries, and when we have a few entries we will have a vote in one of the assemblies.
Lucius Septimius has already made an entry, so come up with your best!
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Post by Publius Valerius Argentum on Aug 10, 2011 22:58:25 GMT 2
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Post by Publius Valerius Argentum on Aug 18, 2011 16:36:48 GMT 2
Here's one I made, a straightforward simple flag. Attachments:
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Post by Publius Valerius Argentum on Aug 18, 2011 16:37:46 GMT 2
And one with the traditional Roman political symbol, the fasces. Attachments:
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Post by Lucius Septimius on Aug 18, 2011 22:53:36 GMT 2
And one with the traditional Roman political symbol, the fasces. Fascists just love stealing symbols
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Post by Publius Valerius Argentum on Aug 18, 2011 23:02:06 GMT 2
Fascists just love stealing symbols Well I think the fasces mostly escaped the stigma that is now attached to the swastika for example. You still see the fasces in all sorts of places in the United States, not least in Congress
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Post by Lucius Septimius on Aug 18, 2011 23:04:50 GMT 2
Fascists just love stealing symbols Well I think the fasces mostly escaped the stigma that is now attached to the swastika for example. You still see the fasces in all sorts of places in the United States, not least in Congress Personally, the first time I really starting to understand the fasces symbol is when I was studying fascism. In my mind, the fasces is to Fascism as the Swastika is to Nazism. I also think the Fasces was a symbol of the Roman Empire and not the Republic, I think.
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Post by Publius Valerius Argentum on Aug 18, 2011 23:10:52 GMT 2
No it is a Republican symbol. It represented the imperium of elected magistrates and the power to punish. The axe was removed inside the pomerium (city limits) to show that magistrates could not impose capital punishment inside the pomperium.
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Post by Publius Valerius Argentum on Aug 18, 2011 23:13:48 GMT 2
In fact the Wikipedia article on it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces gives loads of examples of its use. It is really an ancient hereldic symbol, and really does not attract a stigma I think.
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Post by Lucius Septimius on Aug 18, 2011 23:41:52 GMT 2
No it is a Republican symbol. It represented the imperium of elected magistrates and the power to punish. The axe was removed inside the pomerium (city limits) to show that magistrates could not impose capital punishment inside the pomperium. So, fasces with axe = capital punishment. Fasces = Justice. So the de facto Coat of arms of France represents capital punishment. Heck, the guy who made the Guillotine opposed the death penality and thought more humane punishments were the way to the abolition of the penality. But this is off-topic....
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Post by Publius Valerius Argentum on Aug 25, 2011 15:23:23 GMT 2
Well here's another couple of ideas. Attachments:
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