Hercules or Lazarus?

Hercules at the Crossroads has been painted many times. It’s a classic depiction of choice.

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At a fork in the road, the mythic hero must decide which path to take. There is a scantily clad woman enticing him to go the way of vice. Another woman, matronly and scolding, urges him along the much harder path of virtue. What will he do? Well he’s Hercules. He will choose the difficult path of virtue, obviously. That’s what heroes do. And the moral of the story is: Be like Hercules.