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University of Virginia's Digital Sculpture Project 3D models, bibliography, annotated chronology of the Laocoon; Laocoon photos; Laocoon and his Sons in the Census database; FlickR group "Responses To Laocoön", a collection of art inspired by the Laocoön group; Lessing's Laocoon etext on books.google.com; Loh, Maria H. (2011).
Laocoön and His Sons in the Vatican. Laocoön (/ l eɪ ˈ ɒ k oʊ ˌ ɒ n,-k ə ˌ w ɒ n /; [1] [2] [a] Ancient Greek: Λαοκόων, romanized: Laokóōn, IPA: [laokóɔːn], gen.: Λαοκόοντος) is a figure in Greek and Roman mythology and the Epic Cycle. Laocoön is a Trojan priest.
Laocoön and His Sons, by Agesander, Athenodorus, and Polydorus. Athenodorus (Ancient Greek: Ἀθηνόδωρος) of Rhodes was a sculptor of ancient Greece who lived around the 1st century CE.
The Laocoön is an oil painting created between 1610 and 1614 by Greek painter El Greco.It is part of a collection at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.. [1]The painting depicts the Greek and Roman mythological story of the deaths of Laocoön, a Trojan priest of Poseidon, and his two sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus.
Laocoön or Lacoon, one of the Argonauts [1] [2] [3] and a bastard son of King Porthaon of Calydon by a servant woman and thus half-brother to Oeneus. [1] Oeneus, now growing old, sent his brother Laocoon to guard his young son Meleager during their journey to Colchis. [3] Laocoön, the Trojan priest of Poseidon. [4]
Laocoön and His Sons, by Agesander, Athenodorus, and Polydorus. Agesander (also Agesandros, Hagesander, Hagesandros, or Hagesanderus; Ancient Greek: Ἀγήσανδρος or Ancient Greek: Ἁγήσανδρος) was one, or more likely, several Greek sculptors from the island of Rhodes, working in the first centuries BC and AD, in a late Hellenistic "baroque" style. [1]
The original right arm of the Laocoön and His Sons, discovered in 1906 by Pollak.. Ludwig Pollak (14 September 1868, Prague – circa October 23, 1943, [1] Auschwitz concentration camp) was an Austro-Czech classical archaeologist, antiquities dealer, and director of the Museo Barracco di Scultura Antica in Rome.
Anchises' first major appearance comes in Book 2. He is mentioned while Aeneas is telling Dido about the fall of Troy. [7] During the fall of Troy, Aeneas makes his way home to save Anchises, his wife Creusa, and his son Ascanius. [7] At first Anchises refuses to go with Aeneas and tells Aeneas to leave without him. [7]