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Knælende mand, niobide eller bryder, med løftet h. arm
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Copy in plaster, acquired 1897 and made on a sculpture found in the gardens of Emperor Nero in Subiaco, dating to the 2nd. Century BCE, Early HellenisticStyle If it is a “Niobide boy” he formed part of a group of dying children. Shot to death by the gods Apollo and Diana, because their mother Niobe had boasted, that she had more children than the Gods, even. This is human “hubris” that has to be relentlessly punished by “nemesis”, divine wrath.
Title: Knælende mand, niobide eller bryder, med løftet h. arm
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Copy in plaster, acquired 1897 and made on a sculpture found in the gardens of Emperor Nero in Subiaco, dating to the 2nd.
Century BCE, Early HellenisticStyle If it is a “Niobide boy” he formed part of a group of dying children.
Shot to death by the gods Apollo and Diana, because their mother Niobe had boasted, that she had more children than the Gods, even.
This is human “hubris” that has to be relentlessly punished by “nemesis”, divine wrath.