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Laocoon and His Sons / Gruppo del Laocoonte (detail)

Theseus Defeats the Centaur - Antonio Canova

Mercury, Augustin Pajou, 1780 Musée du Louvre, Paris

The Blinding of Polyphemus.  Tiberius’ villa at Sperlonga.

Neptune Fountain next to Albertina Museum; Vienna, Austria

Hercules

Eustache Le Sueur.

The temple of Poseidon was constructed in 444-440 BC, over the ruins of a temple dating from the Archaic Period. It is perched above the sea at a height of almost 60 m. The design of the temple is a typical hexastyle i.e. it had a front portico with 6 columns. Only some columns of the Sounion temple stand today, but intact it would have closely resembled the contemporary and well-preserved Temple of Hephaestus beneath the Acropolis, which may have been designed by the same architect. [**]

Villa Reale di Milano, Italy.