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Definition of Laocoon

Laocoon
Laocoon La*oc"o*["o]n, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? ] 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 Laoco["o]n, with his sons, infolded in the coils of two serpents, as described by Virgil.

Meaning of Laocoon from wikipedia

- Laocoön (/leɪˈɒkoʊˌɒn, -kəˌwɒn/; Ancient Gr****: Λαοκόων, romanized: Laokóōn, IPA: [laokóɔːn], gen.: Λαοκόοντος) is a figure in Gr**** and Roman mythology...
- The statue of Laocoön and His Sons, also called the Laocoön Group (Italian: Gruppo del Laocoonte), has been one of the most famous ancient sculptures...
- Laocoon, or Laocoön, may refer to: Laocoön, the Trojan priest of Poseidon Laocoon (mythology), mythological characters named Laocoon. Laocoön and His...
- The Laocoön is an oil painting created between 1610 and 1614 by Gr**** painter El Greco. It is part of a collection at the National Gallery of Art in Washington...
- Gr**** mythology, Laocoön (/leɪˈɒkoʊˌɒn, -kəˌwɒn/; Ancient Gr****: Λαοκόων, IPA: [laokóɔːn]) may refer to the following personages: Laocoön or Lacoon, one...
- by Virgil between 29 and 19 BCE. The utterance, spoken by Trojan priest Laocoön, refers to the Trojan Horse constructed by the Gr****s during the Trojan...
- likely related to each other. The very important works of the groups of Laocoön and His Sons, in the Vatican Museums, and the sculptures discovered at...
- had effects in Europe. It was during this time that he wrote his famous Laocoön, or the Limitations of Poetry [de]. In 1765, Lessing returned to Berlin...
- 3240 Laocoon /leɪˈɒkoʊ.ɒn/ is a carbonaceous Jupiter trojan from the Trojan camp, approximately 51 kilometers (32 miles) in diameter. It was discovered...
- Laocoön and His Sons is a 0.83 m high marble sculpture by Joseph Chinard, now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. It is a reduced-scale copy of the ancient...