The other symbol from that era — the Nazi swastika — was also appropriated, ... 1922, seven months before Mussolini’s ‘March on Rome,’ by which he seized political power in Italy.

Rome remained relatively primitive until the 600s B.C., when the Etruscans, who controlled a series of city-states to the north, ... became the symbol of Rome’s power.

A symbol of Rome This ritual was so entrenched in daily life that, to many citizens, it was nothing less than a symbol of Rome itself. To Romans, the baths proved that they were cleaner ...

According to legend, Rome was born on April 21, 753 B.C., when Romulus, the survivor of its feuding twin founders, hitched his plow and furrowed a circular perimeter in the hills above the Tiber ...