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Laocoön (mythology)

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In Greek mythology, Laocoön (/leɪˈɒkoʊˌɒn, -kəˌwɒn/; Ancient Greek: Λαοκόων, IPA: [laokóɔːn]) may refer to the following personages:

  • Laocoön or Lacoon, one of the Argonauts and a bastard son of King Porthaon of Calydon by a servant woman and thus half-brother to Oeneus. Oeneus, now growing old, sent his brother Laocoon to guard his young son Meleager during their journey to Colchis.

Notes

  1. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 14
  2. Nonnus, 13.87
  3. ^ Apollonius of Rhodes, 1.192
  4. Apollodorus, Epitome 5.18

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