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Ver. Aen. 2.40-56, 190-240
Apollodorus Libr. E. 5.17-18

Sam Loomis restrains Norma(n) Bates in the final moments of Psycho (dir. Alfred Hitchcock), Universal Pictures 1960.

The still is frame 935 of the 1000 Frames of Psycho project on the Hitchcockwiki.com.

For connection to Laocoon, see Macfarlane's forthcoming article: "Other Pictures of Great Significance in Psycho: a classical mythological retrospective."

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.