You know what persons are hidden behind the figures in the deck for?

The word “deck of cards”, which means “bundle of cards”, comes from the Italian word “trappola”, which means “trap” and “deceit”…
The deck is made up of “cards” or “playing cards” or “cards” and came from the Italian game of “tarot” or “ταρόκο”, which was played with big squares or rectangles of paper with numbered figures for both entertainment, as well as for speculation.
The face cards in the deck
In the course of the story appeared in several variations but finally prevailed the French “system”(french pak), that has its roots in France in the 16th century, which is why the figures depict costumes of the time. In accordance with that the face cards are king, knight and servant, and later added the queen, with the result that the third current figure, jack, to take characteristics of both the knight and the servant.
The figures are not random but relate to specific historical or mythical forms.
>So the kings are: Charlemagne (king of hearts), Julius Caesar (king of diamonds), Alexander the Great (king of sword), David (king of spades).
The four queens are: Pallas Athena (queen of spades), Judith (the brave Jewish woman who killed Holofernes), the Αρζίν (Argine, probably an anagram of regina=queen) and Rachel (wife of Jacob).
Finally, the four jacks are: Hector (jack of diamonds), Lancelot, Ogier, and the Λαϊρ.
Greek deck
The earliest known Greek deck of cards dates back to 1822 and that the four kings are depicted in the forms of Alexander Ypsilanti, Odysseas Androutsos, Georgakis Olympios and George for Years.