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The serpents killed only the two sons, leaving Laocoön himself alive to suffer. [11] In other versions, he was killed for having committed an impiety by making love with his wife in the presence of a cult image in a sanctuary, [ 12 ] or simply making a sacrifice in the temple with his wife present. [ 13 ]
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 was killed by divine execution from the gods, who supported the Greeks in the Trojan War and sent the sea serpents as punishment. Laocoön's death is the subject of a famous monumental Hellenistic sculpture, known as Laocoön and His Sons. The 1st-century BCE marble sculpture was created by Athenadoros, Agesander, and Polydoros of Rhodes.
In Greek mythology, Laocoön (/ l eɪ ˈ ɒ k oʊ ˌ ɒ n,-k ə ˌ w ɒ n /; Ancient Greek: Λαοκόων, IPA: [laokóɔːn]) may refer to the following personages: . 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]
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