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Hagesandros, Polydoros, and Athenodoros of Rhodes: Laocoön and His Sons

Hagesandros, Polydoros, and Athenodoros of Rhodes: Laocoön and His Sons
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Description: Original of 1st century BCE, or a Roman copy, adaptation, or original of the 1st century CE. Marble, height 8' (2.44 m).

The Laocoön
This work by sculptors Hagesandros, Polydoros, and Athenodoros is thought to be a Hellenistic original from the first century BCE, but may be a copy.

The complex composition relates a story from the Trojan War.
It was meant to be viewed frontally despite being sculpted in the round.

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