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Portrait of an imagined ancient Italian ancestor. In addition to using a picture of myself at age 26, I specified the darker skin, hair and eyes as well as the prominent nose and lips that characterize the men in my family. As the branches of my family hail from Samnite country as well as Sicily and Calabria (as opposed to Rome), I imagined this ancestor as an equestrian--a cavalryman of higher plebeian or lower patrician class whose ancestors who once lost their independence to Rome but eventually gained status with the expansion of citizenship and service to the greater imperium.