Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Laocoon.
In play
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Laocoön and His Sons
The Vatican marble group — priest and sons crushed by sea-serpents — became antiquity's most famous image of agony and the Renaissance's school of suffering.
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Laocoön
Laocoön endures as the warner who was right — "I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts" — silenced by serpents so the horse could enter.