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The Emperor Commodus wished to be identified with the god Hercules. On these medallions, he is depicted as Hercules, with a lion-skin headdress (upper image). He is also shown ploughing a ritual furrow to re-found Rome in his own name (lower...

Marble bust of Antinous as Dionysus, from Rome, 130-140 CE. (British Museum)

A 1642 painting by William Dobson of the future Charles II of England (r. 1660-1685 CE). (Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh)

This wooden door shows Darius I (reigned 521-486 BCE) dressed as pharaoh on the right, making an offering to the Egyptian god Anubis. The goddess Isis stands on the left. The door originally belonged to a box (or naos) used to contain statuettes...

Statue of Amenhotep III, declares the king's might by representing him as a lion, from Napata (Gebel Barkal, Sudan), originally from Soleb (Sudan), 18th Dynasty, reign of Amenhotep III, 1390-1352 BCE. Pharaohs were often shown as a sphinx...

Tom Hopper as the fictional pirate William "Billy Bones" Manderly in the TV series Black Sails. Billy Jones is a character in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island. © 2014 Starz

Toby Schmitz as the English pirate John Rackham, aka 'Calico Jack' (d. 1720) in the TV series Black Sails. ©2017 Starz Entertainment

A portrait of General Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916), who was Sirdar of the Egyptian Army from 1892. In this capacity, Kitchener led an Anglo-Egyptian-Sudanese army into Sudan and won the battle of Omdurman in 1898 and the Mahdist War the...

Tadhg Murphy as the English pirate Edward 'Ned' Low (d. 1724) in the TV series Black Sails. Low was one of the cruelest of all pirate captains during the Golden Age of Piracy (1690-1730), notorious for torturing and mutilating his captives...

Ray Stevenson as the English pirate Blackbeard, aka Edward Teach (d. 1718) in the TV series Black Sails. © 2014 Starz