Farnese Bull is a famous Roman sculpture from the 3rd century CE showing the scene of punishing queen Dirce by tethering her to the horns of a bull.<\/p>\n
Dirce was cruel towards the previous wife of Lycus – Antiope. When Antipe\u2019s sons \u2013 twins Amphion and Zethus \u2013 are convinced by the shepherd who raised them that Antiope is their real mother, they kill Dirce by tying her to the horns of a bull.<\/p>\n
As mentioned by Pliny the Elder sculpture is a copy of a Greek work by Apollonios from around the first century BCE and was discovered in the mid-sixteenth century in the Baths of Caracalla. The artifact is located in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.<\/p>\n
Farnese Bull is the largest ever-discovered single sculpture from antiquity.<\/p>\n\n\t\t