Italy. Pompeii. House of the Vettii. Young Heracles strangling the snakes, sent by Juno, before the eyes of Alcmena, Amphitryon and his father (Jupiter is depicted as an eagle, flown down to the altar). Fresco, 60-79 CE. Campania.

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