Laocoön (mythology)

For other uses, see Laocoon (disambiguation).

In Greek mythology, Laocoön (/leɪˈɒkoʊˌɒn, -kəˌwɒn/; 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] Oeneus, now growing old, sent his brother Laocoon to guard his young son Meleager during their journey to Colchis.[3]

• Laocoön, the Trojan priest of Poseidon.[4]

Notes

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

References

• Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853-1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940-1942. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.