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The most famous account of these is now in Virgil's Aeneid where Laocoön was a priest of Neptune , who was killed with both his sons after attempting to expose the ruse of the Trojan Horse by striking it with a spear. [c] Virgil gives Laocoön the famous line "Equō nē crēdite, Teucrī / Quidquid id est, timeō Danaōs et dōna ferentēs"
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 ...
In the Aeneid (book II, 57 ff.), Aeneas recounts how Sinon was found outside Troy after the rest of the Greek army had sailed away, and brought to Priam by shepherds. . Pretending to have deserted the Greeks, he told the Trojans that the giant wooden horse the Greeks had left behind was intended as a gift to the gods to ensure their safe v
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).
In 2004, Susan finally established the Equine Advocates Rescue & Sanctuary, providing a permanent refuge for rescued equines. Two years later, she expanded the mission by opening a humane ...
In Virgil's epic poem, the Aeneid, Cassandra warned the Trojans about the Greeks hiding inside the Trojan Horse, Agamemnon's death, her own demise at the hands of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, her mother Hecuba's fate, Odysseus's ten-year wanderings before returning to his home, and the murder of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra by the latter's ...
The Elite Equine rescue fundraiser “Boots and Bling” gala is Saturday, Dec. 7 from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. to raise money for injured and unwanted horses and to give them a second chance ...
After seeing a freshly dug hole while conditioning a horse, the equestrian found out later it was used to bury 17-year-old Justine Vanderschoot. Horse trainer discovers pre-dug grave of missing ...