1) Greek killed by sea serpents 2) Mythical being 3) Priest of Apollo 4) Statue in the Vatican
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1) Character in the Aeneid 2) Painting by El Greco 3) Snake in art
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Laocoön (n; Λαοκόων, IPA), the son of Acoetes, is a figure in Greek and Roman mythology. ==History== Laocoön was a Trojan priest of Poseidon (or Neptune), whose rules he defied, either by marrying and having sons, or by committing an impiety by making love with his wife in the presence of a cult image in a sanctuary. He plays a minor role...
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[El Greco] The Laocoön is an oil painting created between 1610 and 1614 by renowned Greek artist and Spanish Renaissance master Doménikos Theotokópoulos, known as El Greco (`The Greek`). It is part of a collection at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.. The painting depicts the Greek and Roman mythological story of the deaths...
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(from the article `Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim`) ...as secretary to General Tauentzien, the military governor of Silesia. Lessing`s studies in philosophy and aesthetics there brought forth two ...
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(from the article `Greco, El`) The one picture by El Greco that has a mythological subject, so dear to most Renaissance artists, is the `Laocoon` (1610–14; National Gallery of Art, ...
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(from the article `Hellenistic Age`) ...Antioch.` Vastly more complex, and showing the search for an original subject, is the brilliant and brutal `The Punishment of Dirce` by Apollonius ... The `Laocoon` group (Vatican Museums), a famous sculpture of the Trojan priest and his two sons struggling with a huge se...
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in Greek legend, a seer and a priest of the god Apollo; he was the son of Agenor of Troy or, according to some, the brother of Anchises (the father ... [1 related articles]
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In classical mythology, a Trojan priest of Apollo and a visionary, brother of Anchises. He and his sons were killed by serpents when he foresaw disaster for Troy in the
Trojan horse left by the...
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A Trojan priest who warned against letting the wooden horse inside Troy. Not only was he ignored, but the gods, who were anti-Trojan, sent serpents to kill him and his two sons.
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La·oc'o·ön noun [ Latin , from Greek ... ]
1. (Class. Myth.) A priest of Apollo, during the Trojan war. (See 2.)
2. (Sculp.) A marble group in the Vatican at Rome, representing the priest Laocoön, with his sons, infolded in the coils of two serpents, as described by Virg...
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Laocoon was a Trojan prophet, son of Antenor and a priest of Apollo and Poseidon. He warned the Trojans against the Wooden Horse. Laocoon, along with his two sons, was killed by two enormous serpents sent by Apollo. The story has frequently furnished a subject to the poets, but it is chiefly interesting as having served as the subject of one of the...
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n] - (Greek mythology) the priest of Apollo who warned the Trojans to beware of Greeks bearing gifts when they wanted to accept the Trojan Horse
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noun (Greek mythology) the priest of Apollo who warned the Trojans to beware of Greeks bearing gifts when they wanted to accept the Trojan Horse; a god who favored the Greeks (Poseidon or Athena) sent snakes who coiled around Laocoon and his two twin sons kill...
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In classical mythology, a Trojan priest of Apollo and a visionary, brother of Anchises. He and his sons were killed by serpents when he foresaw disaster for Troy in the Trojan horse left by the Greeks. The scene of their death is the subject of a classical marble group, rediscovered in the Renaissance, and forms an episode in Virgil's
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