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The enraged Laocoön threw his spear at the Horse in response. Minerva then sent sea serpents to strangle Laocoön and his two sons, Antiphantes and Thymbraeus, for his actions. "Laocoön, ostensibly sacrificing a bull to Neptune on behalf of the city (lines 201 ff.), becomes himself the tragic victim, as the simile (lines 223–224) makes ...
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 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 sculpture shows them being attacked by sea serpents. As related in the Aeneid, after a nine-year war on the beaches of Troy between the Danaans (Greeks from the mainland) and the Trojans, the Greek seer Calchas induces the leaders of the Greek army to win the war by means of subterfuge: build a huge wooden horse and sail away from Troy as if in defeat—leaving the horse ...
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.
He was probably the son and pupil of Agesander of Rhodes, and brother of the sculptor Polydorus, with both of whom he assisted in executing the famous Laocoön and His Sons now in the Vatican Museums; [1] these three names are given by Pliny the Elder, describing what is generally accepted to be the same sculpture.
His sons are George Jr., George III, George Foreman IV, George Foreman V and George Foreman VI. Georgetta Foreman shared a photo of her with Michi, Freeda and George III in 2020. View this post on ...
His leg is coiled with a snake, and his mouth is wide open: apparently cursing everyone "in fury and blasphemy". [16] [17] His figure is sometimes compared to Lanae. Sometimes his figure is compared to Laocoon, the priest of the god Apollo in Troy, who according to legend was strangled by snakes with his sons ("Laocoon and his sons"). [16 ...