The new "Asterix" show on Netflix revives the comics' use of a "Roman" salute that actually has nothing to do with antiquity.

Illustrated by Napoleon's court painter Jacques-Louis David, "Oath of Horatii" is surrounded by other enormous works in The Red Rooms in the Denon wing of the Louvre, but it still commands ...

One is an ‘active and virile warrior type’ exemplified in Jacques-Louis David’s prerevolutionary paintings of scenes from Roman history, notably his ‘Oath of the Horatii’ of 1785, now in the Louvre.