Aule Metele (Arringatore)

a. How does this work reflect Etruscan society?

b. What is the date?

c. What does it illustrate?

d. Why is this work significant?

e. What is the medium?

Answers will vary.

a. This work reflects the melding of Etruscan society into the stronger Roman society.

b. Early 1 st C. BCE.

c. The figure is wearing the garments of a Roman magistrate, and his Etruscan name and that of both his parents are inscribed on the hem of his short toga.

d. This work reflects the Roman hegemony over Etruscans. The figure is presented as a Roman orator.

e. Bronze.