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Marble statue of Emperor Augustus (27 BC-34 CE) dressed in his role as the high priest Pontifex Maximus, Corinth Archeological Museum.

Travis Fimmel as Ragnar Lothbrok in the TV series Vikings. Photo by HISTORY - © 2016 The HISTORY Channel

A marble bust of Roman emperor Commodus as the hero of Greek mythology Hercules, c. 190-2 CE. (The Capitoline Museums, Rome)

This black basalt statue from Egypt portrays the Ptolemaic queen Cleopatra VII as Isis-Aphrodite (c. 51-30 BCE). Most Ptolemaic queens associated themselves with the goddess but none more famously than Cleopatra. In her own lifetime, she...

A colossal marble statue of Roman emperor Claudius in the guise of Jupiter. From a theatre at Lanuvio, 1st century CE. (Vatican Museums, Rome)

This mid-1st Century BCE mural portrays a statue of Venus and the infant Cupid in the Temple of Venus Genitrix, Rome. The statue has been identified as the infamous gilded statue of Cleopatra VII as Venus that Julius Caesar unveiled during...

Iris as the goddess of the rainbow, marble sculpture by Italian sculptor Gaetano Matteo Monti, 1841. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

Coronation of Maria Theresa as Queen of Hungary in 1741, oil on canvas, c. 18th century.

Clive Standen as Rollo of Normandy in the TV series Vikings. Photo by Jonathan Hession/HISTORY - © 2015 The HISTORY Channel

Portrait of Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord as Grand Chamberlain of the French Empire, oil on canvas by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 1807. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.