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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 ]
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.
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 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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