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Devoured by serpents
Laocoön and his sons from the Illiad. Laocoön was a Trojan priest of Poseidon (or Neptune), whose rules he defied, Athena became angry with him for warning the Trojans not to trust the horse, but to burn it. She sent two giant sea serpents to strangle and kill him and his two sons. The famous marble statute is attributed by Pliny the Elder to the sculptors Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydorus, and stands in the Vatican Museums, Rome.
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