[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by Patricia

It might be Laocoön (the priest who recognised that the Trojan Horse was a trick. the Trojans ignored him. A sea-snake killed him. It was sent by an angry deity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laoco%C3%B6n

Doesn't look like a depiction of Laocoon. Most of the ones I've seen show him in agony (sometimes with his sons) as a result of being strangled by the serpent (which I think was sent by Neptune).

This guy looks more like he is blowing into a conch shell. What the snakes have to do with it, I'll never know, but he doesn't look all that bothered by them.