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The ancient Greek Lion at the Arsenal in Venice. Credit: Didier Descouens/Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY-SA-4.0The story of the Ancient Greek Piraeus Lion, which is now in Venice, is one of several which are part of Greece’s long history of ancient sculpted masterpieces and their subsequent looting, which has meant that many of them are now scattered…