Laocoön

Laocoön in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

(Λαοκόων), a Trojan hero, who plays a prominent part in the post-Homeric legends about Troy, especially in the Ἰλίον πέρσις, the substance of which is preserved in Proclus's Chrestomathia. He was a son of Antenor (Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 347) or of Acoetes (Hyg. Fab. 135), and a priest of the Thymbraean Apollo, or, according to others, of Poseidon. ...

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Laocoön in Wikipedia

Laocoön (Λαοκόων [laoˈko.ɔːn], English: /leɪˈɒkɵ.ɒn/), the son of Acoetes[1] is a figure in Greek and Roman mythology, a Trojan priest of Poseidon[2] (or Neptune), whose rules he had defied, either by marrying and having sons,[3] or by having committed an impiety by making love with his wife in the presence of a cult image in a sanctuary.[4] H...

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