Lictor

(noun)

Bodyguards for a magistrate in Republican Rome and emperors during Imperial Rome. They carried fasces, a bundle of wooden rods with an axe, which symbolized the power of the magistrate or emperor.

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Examples of Lictor in the following topics:

  • Revolution in France

    • His subject matter often involved classical history such as The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons .

  • Imperial Sculpture in the Early Roman Empire

    • These figures include men, women, children, priests, lictors, and identifiable members of the political elite during the Augustan age, including Augustus, his wife Livia, his son-in-law Marcus Agrippa (who died in 12 BCE), and Tiberius, Augustus's adopted son and successor who would marry the emperor's widowed daughter in 11 BCE.