Question

This figure appears with a broken arm and genitals and leans to the right against his adversary in a limestone relief sculpture discovered at Dura-Europos. It’s not Apollo, but a headless, armless terracotta sculpture of this figure placing one leg on a bound animal was found at Veii (“VAY-ee”). A goddess rests a cushion on this figure’s head in one of the friezes on the east metope of the Temple of Zeus. The centerpiece of the Getty’s ancient art collection is a youthful nude depiction of this (10[1])figure discovered at (10[1])Hadrian’s Villa and named for the Marquess (10[1])of Lansdowne. A bearded sculpture of this figure depicts him with his right hand behind his back (10[1])grasping three apples (10[1])and (10[1])is a (10[1])reproduction (10[2])of an original (10[1])by Lysippos. (10[3]-5[1])That muscular (-5[1])sculpture (10[1])of this hero leaning on (10[1])a skin-draped (10[1])club (10[2])is named (10[2])for the (10[2])Farnese family. For 10 points, name this hero often depicted in Greek art strangling the Nemean lion. (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Heracles [or Hercules; accept Farnese Hercules or Ercole Farnese; accept Lansdowne Hercules]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y24100%0%8%124.54

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