Also at the Vatican, this sculpture from antiquity was found during the Renaissance; Michelangelo, the story goes, fainted when he saw this sculpture he had only seen in sketches.
Laocoon and his sons are being suffocated by snakes (sent by Athena, protector of Greece) because Laocoon advised against bringing the Trojan horse into Troy. "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts."
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