) After completing the Roman Republic reading/watching assignment, consider the portrait of a Roman patrician depicted here. How does the portrayal of wrinkles, unidealized features, and individuality relate to ideas of power and respect in Ancient Rome? bust of an elderly man

2) Find and upload a portrait of a contemporary person. Explain how the signs of age (or lack of them) affect your perception of their power or abilities in today’s world. By contemporary portrait, I mean a portrait of someone from our current world. That would mean 20th and 21st centuries for the most part.

I'm dying: a couple going on vacation but his wife was on a business trip so he went to the destination first and his wife would meet him the next day. when he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick email. unfortunately, when typing her address, he mistyped a letter and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher’s wife whose husband had passed away only the day before. when the grieving widow checked her email, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream, and fell to the floor in a dead faint. at the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen: dearest wife, just got checked in. everything prepared for your arrival tomorrow. p. s. sure is hot down here.