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	Laocoon - LoveToKnow 1911
		LAOCOON, in Greek legend a brother of Anchises, who had been a priest of Apollo, but having profaned the temple of the god he and his two sons were attacked by serpents while preparing to sacrifice a bull at the altar of Poseidon, in whose service Laocoon was then acting as priest.
		199 sq.), and as it is represented in the marble group, the Laocoon, in the Vatican.
		In the oldest existing version of the legend - that of Arctinus of Miletus, which has so far been preserved in the excerpts of Proclus - the calamity is lessened by the fact that only one of the two sons is killed; and this, as has been pointed out (Arch.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Laocoon (274 words)

	laocoon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Laocoon was a Trojan priest of Apollo but was praying to Poseidon at the time of his demise.
		Laocoon came into the light at the end of the Trojan War when there was a disagreement about what to do with the wooden horse.
		Poor Laocoon met his demise when he was praying to Poseidon and two snakes (ironically sent by Poseidon) from the island of Tenedos (again ironically where the Greek ships were hidden) came and squeezed him and his two sons to death.
	oncampus.richmond.edu /academics/classics/students/Ribeiro/laocoon.htm (165 words)

	Mythography \| The Legend of Laocoon in Myth and Art
		Laocoon was an intriguing character in Greek mythology.
		According to ancient authors, Laocoon was a Trojan priest of Poseidon (note, however, that some sources claim that he was instead one of Apollo's priests).
		In mythology, Laocoon was the brother of the hero Anchises and son of Capys.
	www.loggia.com /myth/laocoon.html (435 words)

	Laocoon 2, Greek Mythology Link.
		But others say that the Trojans were about to obey him when Athena shook the foundations of the earth at his feet as a warning; and since he did not cease to exhort the Trojans, the goddess, stabbing his eyeballs with anguish, robbed him of his sight.
		Yet others affirm that it was Apollo who sent the two serpents swimming through the sea from the neighbouring islands to devour the sons of Laocoon 2, and that as he hurried, weapon in hand, to help his sons, he was killed by the monsters, which, gliding away, disappeared into a shrine.
		Laocoon 1 is the same as Lacoon, one of the ARGONAUTS.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Laocoon2.html (864 words)

	Laocoon and his sons (1/2)
		Laocoon’s sons look towards their father with fearful eyes, in need of help, but Laocoon is already embroiled in his own struggle, a sea serpent biting his side.
		Laocoon was a Trojan Priest who warned the Trojans not to accept the Greek wooden horse.
		Pope Julius II bought the Laocoon for the Vatican, after Michael Angelo had declared it was the greatest work of art in the world, and Signor de Fredis received a pension for life.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Arts/Laocoon.htm (1743 words)

	Laocoon and the expression of pain
		In the eighteenth century, Laocoon and the sculpture were studied in detail by the historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768) and the philosopher Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781).
		In his book The anatomy and philosophy of expression as connected with the fine arts, Bell argued that Laocoon as he is portrayed in the sculpture could not have roared like a wounded bull, not for the reasons proposed by Winckelmann or by Lessing but for anatomical reasons.
		When the arms are strenuously engaged, as Laocoon's certainly are, the ability of the chest to produce a roar, or any violent expiration, is compromised by the work which the chest is already doing for the arms.
	www.wellcome.ac.uk /en/pain/microsite/culture3.html (720 words)

	Laocoön - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Another tradition states that Apollo sent the serpents for an unrelated offense, and only unlucky timing caused the Trojans to misinterpret them as punishment for striking the Horse.
		It was the subject of Sophocles' lost tragedy, Laocoon.
		According to the hellenistic poet Euphorion of Chalcis, Apollo was punishing Laocoon for procreating upon holy ground sacred to Poseidon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Laocoon (418 words)

	Laocoon Sculpture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The original Laocoon statue was carved from marble by three sculptors; Agesander, Polydorus and Athenodorus of Rhodes.
		Laocoon's action, attempting to interfere with the fated course of events, infuriated the gods who sent sea serpents to destroy Laocoon and his sons, which came to pass.
		This Laocoon statue is an amazing contrast of the adult body with those of the adolescence and it also contrasts the strained muscles of Laocoon making almost superhuman effort to free himself with the relaxing muscles of his collapsing sons.
	www.atherbys.com /lasc.html (172 words)

	iDC Rome: 500 Years of the Laocoon
		Almost immediately, the fragments were identified as belonging to the Laocoon, a sculpture that had stood in the palace of the ancient Emperor Titus and that was known to Renaissance humanists because it received the highest of praise from the first-century writer, Pliny the Younger, in his volume, The Natural History.
		Just as Laocoon and his sons struggle against the snakes that will bring them to their death, so too do a number of Michelangelo's sculpted figures struggle against external bonds, as in his famous Slaves, intended for the tomb of Pope Julius II, but now in the Louvre in Paris and the Accademia in Florence.
		The intense pain suffered by Laocoon and his sons, and the contrast of this pain with the beauty of the sculpture, was a topic of discussion for the eighteenth-century father of art history, J. Winckelmann.
	www.idcrome.org /laocoon.htm (1169 words)

	DRAGONS OF TROY - Greek mythology, death of Laocoon - DRAKONES TROIADES
		THE DRAKONES TROIADES were two massive Sea-Dragons (or serpents) which were summoned from the deep by Athena to slay the Trojan seer Laokoon who tried to warn the Trojans that the Wooden Horse was a ruse.
		First, each snake knotted itself round the body of one of Laocoon’s small sons, hugging him tight in its coils, and cropped the piteous flesh with its fangs.
		A strange panic crept into our people’s fluttering hearts: they argued Laocoon had got what he deserved for the crime, the sacrilege of throwing his spear that the wooden horse and so profaning its holiness with the stroke.
	www.theoi.com /Ther/DrakonesTroiades.html (937 words)

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		Catterson said that it was the strongest piece of evidence to support her theory that the “Laocoon,” which currently resides at the Vatican Museums in Rome, is a forgery by Michelangelo.
		Shortly after the “Laocoon” in question was discovered in 1506 in an ancient underground room in a Roman vineyard, it was purchased by Pope Julius II and installed in the sculpture courtyard of the Vatican palace.
		Therefore, she said, he would have most likely carved the “Laocoon” and his famous "Pieta," which depicts Mary holding the dead body of Christ in her lap, at the same time because the "Pieta" was completed in 1500.
	jscms.jrn.columbia.edu /cns/2005-05-03/grogan-michelangeloforgery/fullText (1283 words)

	Laocoon - Olga's Gallery
		Laocoon was a Trojan priest, whom we know from Iliad by Homer.
		He distrusted the wooden horse, which the Greeks made on Odysseus' advice and in which the Greeks were hiding.
		Poseidon, turned against the Trojans and sent a huge serpent, which emerged from the sea and destroyed Laocoon and his sons.
	www.abcgallery.com /mythology/laocoon.html (52 words)

	CHRISIS > Laocoon (Featuring Satan & Adam) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Laocoon was a prophet who told the Trojans not to accept the large wooden horse left by the Athenians during the Trojan war.
		Laocoon knew the horse was full of Athenian soldiers.
		Athena, who was on Athens' side, sent sea serpents to kill Laocoon and his sons.
	www.chrisis.org /chr_oddballs/laocoon.html (92 words)

	What is Art?
		In Greek mythology, Laocoon is a priest of Troy who advised the Trojans not to bring the Trojan horse within the walls of their city.
		The Laocoon group sculpture is a depiction of the death of Laocoon and his sons as punishment for Laocoon's advice.
		Every inch of Laocoon's face depicts his pain: From his wrinkled forehead to half shut eyes and parted lips, the figure cries out in pain.
	www.rationality.net /art.htm (810 words)

	Richter, Laocoon's Body (abstract) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Simon Richter re-establishes the history of the Laocoon statue and demonstrates how its own discovery and rediscovery, placement and displacement, damage and rebuilding have intensified its interest as a focus of German aesthetic criticism.
		In the context that Richter establishes throughout the chapter, the "noble simplicity and quiet grandeur" that Winckelmann famously attributed to the Laocoon is not a bland appreciation of the Classical form, but a valorization of the ability to conceal pain in blankness and silenceówhich Winckelmann read into the stature.
		Though pain and the soul's efforts to conceal pain are violently opposed, it is only in their mutual tension that representation takes place." In other words, the harmony and balance often employed as the definition of Classical art are reflected in emotional content (pain and stoicism) as well as form (symmetry).
	mh.cla.umn.edu /txtimjm4.html (380 words)

	Amazon.ca: Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry: Books: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing,Edward Allen ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Nevertheless, Laocoon commands a formidable position in the history of letters as a breakthrough vision in aesthetics and the turning point of our notions about Western art.
		Immpressively, in Laocoon Lessing turns out not only to be a forerunner of modernism but also a sophisticated semiotician long before Saussure.
		Edward A. McCormick's edition of Laocoon, with a short bio and extra bonus of a foreword by Michael Fried, is a keystone work for any canonical study in aesthetics and the art of the West.
	www.amazon.ca /Laocoon-Essay-Limits-Painting-Poetry/dp/0801831393 (482 words)

	origaNo - Laocoon
		On Trojan public place, whereas Laocoon proposed to burn the equine sculpture, two enormous snakes intertwined him and his two sons, struggling them to death.
		Fearing divine reprisals, Trojans then introduced the wooden horse into the city and were soon massacred or reduced to slavery by the warriors that were in the horse.
		The sculpture representing anguish of Laocoon and his sons is in Vatican.
	www.origano.com /gal/bxa/laocoon/laocoon_0a.htm (457 words)

	vaticancitytemplate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		This is a statue of Laocoon that lives at the Vatican.
		When the Greeks brought the Trojan Horse to Troy, Laocoon made a speech saying that the Greeks could not be trusted and that they should not accept the gift.
		The Trojan's took this as a sign that the gods were angry with Laocoon for having speared the horse, so, they accepted the gift, and the rest is tragic history.
	plaza.ufl.edu /chucko26/laocoon_picture.html (117 words)

	Laocoon - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Laocoon was a Trojan priest of Poseidon, although some sources say he was a priest of Apollo.
		Most notably, he was suspicious of the horse left by the Greeks, and felt that it should be burned.
		The Trojans see this as a sign that Laocoon's doubt has enfuriated the gods, and they become even more determined to bring the horse within the city walls.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Laocoon (220 words)

	Laocoon and his sons (2/2)
		I have no idea why Laocoon is so afraid and hysteric with these small serpents.
		Laocoon (1938) by Fotis Kontoglou (Apostolelis) (1895 – 1965) a Greek painter influenced by medieval Greek (byzantine) Art.
		The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Arts/Laocoon2.htm (503 words)

	elgreco
		According to Brown's writing the legend states that Laocoon had incurred the wrath of Apollo by desecrating his temple and by violating a prohibition against marriage and fathering children.
		But, Laocoon warned them not to take it inside the walls of the city for he said that it was a trap from the Greeks.
		When the Trojans saw this they believed that Laocoon was punished for doubting the worthiness of Athena's gift and for shooting his spear into the side of the horse.
	www2.students.sbc.edu /deconinck01/elgreco.html (2756 words)

	Laocoon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		They had scarcely dismounted from their horses when both agreed that it was the Laocoon of which the encyclopedist Pliny had spoken.
		In the Laocoon group he had found an example from classical art.
		The myth was retold in The Aeneid by Virgil.
	www.sculpturegallery.com /sculpture/laocoon.html (262 words)

	Laocoon
		He threw a lance at the wooden horse of the Greeks and warned the Trojans about it.
		The gods had two huge serpents emerge from the ocean, and they tore Laocoon and his two sons apart.
		Article "Laocoon" created on 18 April 1999; last modified on 28 January 2002 (Revision 2).
	www.pantheon.org /articles/l/laocoon.html (51 words)

	Laocoon - by Joseph Wesner at the Dennos Museum Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Laocoon - by Joseph Wesner at the Dennos Museum Center
		His influence for this sculpture, Laocoon lies in the tale of a Trojan priest of Apollo, named Laocoon, who protested during the Trojan War against bringing the wooden horse into Troy.
		This offended the god and Laocoon was killed with his two sons by two sea serpents.
	www.dennosmuseum.org /exhibitions/outdoor/joseph-wesner.html (350 words)

	Laocoon and his sons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		A cast of the original sculpture "Laocoon and his sons" on the grounds of the Ringling Estate.
		In book 2 of Virgil's Aeneid, Laocoon was a priest who tried to warn the citizens of Troy about the Trojan Horse.
		According to the story, the Gods favored the greek invaders, and sent sea serpents to strangle Laocoon at the altar of Neptune.
	fcit.coedu.usf.edu /Florida/photos/historic/ring/ringl2/ringl228.htm (172 words)

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