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An examination of how kings, emperors and politicians through the ages have used images to influence and manipulate their subjects. Included: a Bronze Age ruler buried near Stonehenge whose possessions include gold hair clasps; the walls of Persepolis, which the Persian king Darius the Great had decorated with stone reliefs; Alexander the Great's use of his own likeness to unify the Persian Empire behind him; and the Roman leader Augustus, who used art to represent himself as a peacemaker.