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This red-figure pottery depicts a story involving Helen of Troy. Greek tragedies posed their audiences an awkward question: what would you do if you were in a similar situation? Meanwhile, comedy gave satirists a channel through which to cut Athens' political heavies down to size. (DEA/G.NIMATALLAH/De Agostini/Getty Images)

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Adolf Hitler stands with his back to a statue of Discobolos, the Discus Thrower

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The Statue of Liberty against a blue sky

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Ornate water gardens of the ancient fortress of Sigiriya in Sri Lanka

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A plaque which decorated the palace of the Benin Obas, The Obas butchers sacrificing a cow, the most prestigious animal sacrifice

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A phantasmagoria by Belgian entertainer Etienne-Gaspard Robert, whose stage name was Etienne Robertson, 1797. (Photo by Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

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Walter Scott: an engraving after a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence of the Scottish poet and novelist Sir Walter Scott

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History heroSteven Berkoff chooses Laurence Olivier (1907–89)

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Tokyo Olympics 1964: Yoshinori Sakai prepares to light the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony. Born on the day that the first atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima, he was a symbol of Japan’s postwar reconstruction and peace

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Bronwen Everill discusses the Benin Bronzes

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Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle

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A man digs a grave in Sarajevo for victims of the war in Bosnia, 1992

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Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy (Photo by Alamy)

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Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Arrives Japan

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A young girl reading a book. We recently asked our Twitter followers which historical fiction book inspired them as a child. (Photo by Terry Vine via Getty Images)

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Portrait of Carlo Broschi (stage name Farinelli), the most famous opera singer of the 18th century. (Photo By DEA/A. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

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French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant holding the skull of Yorik

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Festival of Britain official programme. The event was held in 1951 on London's South Bank

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A portrait of William Shakespeare

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Peter O’Toole (top) plays Henry II alongside Richard Burton

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Virginia Woolf, writer and critic. (Image by Getty Images)

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Madame Tussaud's exhibition at Baker Street, London. But who was her first waxwork? (Photo by Bettmann, via Getty Images)

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