Apollo Sauroktonos

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Apollo Sauroktonos (Attic Greek: Άπόλλων Σαυροκτόνος) (Apollo Lizard-killer) is the title of several 1st – 2nd century AD Roman marble copies of an original by the ancient Greek sculptor Praxiteles. The statues depict a nude adolescent Apollo about to catch a lizard climbing up a tree.

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Image: After Praxiteles, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.