Laokon with sons

The work of Hellenistic sculpture, which they most admired in ancient time... 

locatio alace of the Knights, Rhodes town, Rhodes island, Grece ( but it is copy, original of this marble sculpture from I century is today in the Vatican Museum )

Homer says in the Iliad - Laocoon advised the Trojans ,  not to bring to the city the wooden horse saying ( "I'm afraid of Achaeans even when thay gifts brings".Laocoon with this incurred the wrath of the goddess Athena.Athena was the patron of Achaeans. And she sends two giant serpents to strangle him and his two sons....

According to another legend , Apollon was very angry to Laocoon because Laocoon was priest but he got married and make love with his wife in Apollon`s temple and got two sons....