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	laocoon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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)

	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.
		The Laocoon is truly a miraculous sculpture; the emotion and excitement of Laocoon’s epic struggle is frozen in one single pose.
		Laocoon was a Trojan Priest who warned the Trojans not to accept the Greek wooden horse.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Arts/Laocoon.htm (907 words)

	laocoon
		Laocoön was a priest of Poseidon at Troy who was killed along with his sons by Poseidon for trying to expose the ruse of the Trojan Horse.
		The great sculpture of "Laocoön and his Sons" now in the Vatican museum was attributed by the Roman author Pliny the Elder to three sculptors from the island of Rhodes: Hegesandros, Athenedoros, and Polydoros.
		Laocoon : An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry (Johns Hopkins...
	www.fact-library.com /laocoon.html (199 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 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)

	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)

	Sculpture
		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.
	almatadema.homestead.com /Sculpture.html (134 words)

	Laocoon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Laocoon, la ok'o on, in ancient Greek legend, a Trojan priest of Neptune.
		Near the close of the Trojan War, when the Greeks tried to introduce into Troy the wooden horse, Laocoon protested strongly and perhaps might have convinced his countrymen of his wisdom had not a serious accident occurred.
		This was regarded by the Trojans as a sign that Laocoon had been guilty of sacrilege in doubting the sacred character of the wooden horse.
	www.factopia.com /practical-reference-vol3/laocoon.htm (128 words)

	Adopt a statue in the Park
		Sculpted by Jean-Baptiste Tuby, Philibert Vigier and Jean Rousselet, Laocoon and his Sons is a copy of a classical sculpture in Rome that was at the time considered to be one of the finest along with The Belvedere Apollo.
		Laocoon was a Trojan priest of Apollo who was punished for lying with his wife, Antiope, in the god's sanctuary.
		The group shows the two serpents sent by Apollo attacking Laocoon's sons while the Trojan strives in vain to save them.
	www.chateauversailles.fr /en/1_Adopt_a_statue_in_the_Park.php (2523 words)

	Laocoön and his Sons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		[[Image Link]] The statue of Laocoön and his Sons, also called the Laocoön Group, is a monumental marble sculpture, now in the Vatican Museums, Rome.
		The statue is attributed by the Roman author Pliny the Elder to three sculptors from the island of Rhodes, Agesander, Athenedoros and Polydorus.
		It shows Laocoön and his sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus being strangled by sea serpents.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/laocooen_and_his_sons (713 words)

	Laocoon - Virtual Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.francesfarmersrevenge.com /art/mythology/laocoon.html (52 words)

	AllRefer.com - LaocoOn (Folklore And Mythology) - Encyclopedia
		While he and his two sons were sacrificing to Poseidon at the seashore, two serpents came from the water and crushed them.
		Subsequent events vindicated LaocoOn's judgment, however, since the horse was filled with Greeks, who waited until night and then sacked Troy.
		A magnificent Greek statue by Agesander, Athenodorus, and Polydorus, unearthed in Rome in 1508 and now in the Vatican, shows LaocoOn and his sons in their death struggle.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/Laocoon.html (240 words)

	Greek Myths: A Virtual Storybook: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		That, he claimed, was why the Greeks had made it so large - to prevent the Trojans from bringing it through any of their gates.
		Laocoon, a priest of Apollo, argued that the horse boded ill for Troy and must be destroyed.
		The Trojans saw the death of Laocoon as an omen.
	www.elysianplains.com /don_nemo/myth/story_page_43.htm (171 words)

	Laocon - Offers domain redirection services.
		Laocoon 2 and his sons The seer Laocoon 2 warned the Trojans against the WOODEN HORSE (as Cassandra also did), telling them not bring that.
		Images of Laocoon and His Sons, Hellenistic Greek, early 1st century, in Vatican Museums, Rome, by Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros of Rhodes.
		(lay-OK-oh-on) In classical mythology, Laocoon was a priest in Troy during the Trojan War Trojan horse outside their gates, Laocoon warned against bringing it into the.
	www.destarter.com /Laocoon/Laocon.html (462 words)

	R.E.M. lyrics - Laughing
		Laocoon and her two sons Pressured storm, tried to move.
		Laocoon and her two sons Run the gamut, sated view Know them more, emotion bound.
		Lighted, lighted, laughing Laocoon and her two sons Ran the gamut, settled new, Find a place fit to laugh.
	www.lyricsbox.com /rem-lyrics-laughing-xx7dt4n.html (104 words)

	elgreco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
		The son to the left of the painting is trying to fight one of the serpents off but he will soon come to death.
		The other son on the right of the painting is already dead with his body laying down on his head.
	www2.students.sbc.edu /deconinck01/elgreco.html (2756 words)

	Modern Art and Fine Art: A Rational Juxtaposition
		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.
		Both father and sons are portrayed in a haunting state of agony.
	www.rationality.net /art.htm (818 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.
		The sculpture representing anguish of Laocoon and his sons is in Vatican.
		Greek hero, son of Thetis, the nymph of the sea.
	www.origano.com /gal/bxa/laocoon/laocoon_0a.htm (457 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 96.11.11
		This new role for a woman was in the public religious sphere, since that was one of the few arenas open to women.
		Burkhard Fehr ("The Laocoon Group or the Political Exploitation of a Sacrilege," 189-204) considers a statue of Laocoon and his two sons, which Pliny states was once owned by Titus, the son of Vespasian.
		Fehr claims that Titus was aware of this analogy and used the statue as political propaganda to support his own claim to the throne.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1996/96.11.11.html (2648 words)

	Greek Sculpture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Laocoon Group: Early first century B.C. (Vatican, Rome) 8 feet high from the school at Rhodes (perhaps Athanadoras, Agesander, and Polydoros.
		The Trojan priest Laocoon and his sons are being strangled by sea serpents because the priest offended Poseidon by warning the Trojans to beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
		The Laocoon group used to be dated in the later first century B.C. but has been moved to the middle of the second.
	www.portergaud.edu /cmcarver/grsc.html (5637 words)

	Laocoön, copy B: electronic edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Both serpents coil around all three figures; both have their mouths open and are biting Laocoon and the son on the left.
		The nude, youthful son on the left struggles with the serpent of "Evil." He has been identified as Adam by some scholars, but he is probably Satan (see the evidence below that the other son is Adam).
		The youthful, muscular nude son on the right has been identified as Satan by some scholars, but he is more probably Adam (given the inscription of the name Lilith, Adam's legendary first wife, in Hebrew under the figure's right arm).
	www.blakearchive.org /blake/ebtdocs/illuminated-books/laocoon/books/laocoon.b/laocoon.b.sgm (1921 words)

	James, Blake's Laocoon (abstract) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It reattributes the subject (from Laocoon and his sons, all classical figures, to the Hebraic figures Jah, Satan and Adam), and it parallels a commercial paradigm by propogating evil in the form of war, both intra-textually and in the relationship of image and text.
		The engraving "allowed for a the peculiar combination of text and illustration, including an ambiguous and often contradictory relation between the two that frequently generates meanings of which neither would be capable alone" (226).
		James asserts that "[t]he plate evidences to an extreme degree the formal effects of Blake's mature practices of emphasizing the spatial and graphic qualitites of his text and of combining text and illustration in such a way that the plate becomes a unit of composition." James makes the visual discourse the master of the text.
	mh.cla.umn.edu /txtimjm3.html (198 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Today's issues \| Michelangelo
		As a baby, Michelangelo was sent to be wet nursed in a family of stone cutters.
		His father was initially resistant to the idea of his son becoming an artist - a mere labourer in his mind - but at 13, Michelangelo was apprenticed to Florentine painter Domenico Ghirlandaio.
		Between 1490 and 1492, the teenage Michelangelo lived in the house of Lorenzo de' Medici, then the leading art patron of Florence.
	www.guardian.co.uk /netnotes/article/0,6729,520141,00.html (668 words)

	GSEM.html
		Tzetzes affirms that Laocoon's son died in the temple of the Thymbraean Apollo, the
		Laocoon was a Trojan, said by some to be the brother of Anchises, and a priest of the sea god Poseidon.
		Winckelmann famously attributed to the Laocoon is not a bland
	www.brynmawr.edu /gradgroup/historyofart/GSEM_679_Laocoon.htm (10759 words)

	Laocoon: Definition of Laocoon in Webster's Dictionary 1913 Edition - Wunder Dictionary
		Laocoon: Definition of Laocoon in Webster's Dictionary 1913 Edition
		A priest of Apollo, during the Trojan war.
		A marble group in the Vatican at Rome, representing the priest Laocoon, with his sons, infolded in the coils of two serpents, as described by Virgil.
	websters.wunderdictionary.com /dictionary/def/english/laocoon.html (64 words)

	The Hellenistic Era (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I love this sculpture of Laocoon and His Sons, a Roman copy of the original done probably around 150 BCE.
		As Greek culture spread throughout the known world by the hand (and sword) of Alexander the Great, it was, as in Laocoon, a time of high excitement and emotion.
		Yet the success of their culture would be the only thing left for the Greeks to hold onto, as a young, new empire to the West would eventually strangulate the city-states like the serpent sent to silence Laocoon had done (according to legend) centuries before.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~mxb/helenistic_greece.html (564 words)

	Ancient Greek Sculptures
		The Trojan priest Laocoon and his sons were strangled by sea snakes, sent by the gods who favored the Greeks, while he was sacrificing at the altar of Poseidon.
		Because Laocoon had tried to warn the Trojan citizens of the danger of bringing in the wooden horse (Trojan horse), he incurred the wrath of the gods.
		The sculpture is currently exhibited at the Vatican Museum in Rome.
	www.hellenic-art.com /statues/laokoon.htm (123 words)

	Mary Caterine Newcomb: Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The piece recalls the ancient sculpture Laocoon and its depiction of the scene from Virgil's Aeneid where Laocoon and his sons are strangled by a sea serpent.
		Whereas the death of Laocoon and his sons was a sign of tragedy in foretelling the immanent fall of Troy, the "Twin Goddesses II" is an image from a personal creation myth.
		This pathetic struggle suggests the serpent-entangled figures of the second-century B.C. Laocoon, and the hunted deer as a metaphor of human fate can be traced to the myth of Diana and Acteon.
	www.newcombalia.ca /Reviews.html (2503 words)

	Laocoön (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Laocoön was punished by the gods for interfering with their will.
		The gods sent serpents out of the sea to kill him and his two sons.
		One son lies dead, and the other will soon succumb.
	www.nga.gov /collection/gallery/gg29/gg29-33269.0.html (239 words)

	laocoon
		(Sculp.) A marble group in the Vatican at Rome, representing the priest Laoco["o]n, with his sons, infolded in the coils of two serpents, as described by Virgil.
		A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents.
		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.beetfoundation.com /words/l/laocoon.html (176 words)

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